Am 02.03.2011 19:19, schrieb Colin Kern:
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Michael Alford<[email protected]> wrote:
On 2/10/11 4:31 PM, Michael Alford wrote:
A reminder for anyone interested:
The supercomputer Watson will appear on the Jeopardy program this coming
Feb 14-16.
Michael
Watson won on the Jeopardy program, however, following up:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/01/congressman-upsets-ibm-supercomputer-watson/
Intersting. I'd love to see a video of the match. While Watson's
ability to answer questions is impressive, and I big step forward in
AI, it's pretty clear that the main reason Watson was able to beat
Jennings and Rutter was its ability to beat them on the buzzer. You
can see in the footage that both human contestants are attempting to
buzz in for a huge portion of the questions that Watson answered. I
think that if Watson were pitted against them in a written test, it
would be a much closer game. I'd even feel comfortable putting some
money on the humans.
Colin
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It really came down to Watson beeing a world class buzzer beater. This
speed test was ofcourse ridiculous in itself.
But it was further skewed by the the fact that Watson got the full
question in writing at the beginning of the question.
At the very least the questions would have had to be supplied to Watson
word for word at the same time the humans heard the words.
Stefan
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