On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Quay, Jonathan (IHG) <jonathan.q...@ihg.com> wrote: > I thought Watson did very well on questions that a human could answer with > Google. Not so much on things that required making an inference. The > "Toronto" gaffe shows he needs a couple more PTFs. Wonder how Watson would > do on a fully configured z/196.
Yeah, I made that exact comment to my wife -- most of the questions it got right were clearly things one could Google, like "From what city was the artwork called <artworknamethatIforget> looted in 2003?" I missed the final question because I know that Midway is named after the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 (the Chicago World's Fair). Of course I also know it was a WWII battle, but it wasn't *named* after that, so I kept going, trying to think of other cities with two airports. (Plus, to be fair, I wasn't aware of who Butch O'Hare was.) Hmm, I tried Googling to see if I could answer the question with some clever search terms -- but of course I now get hundreds of articles talking about the show! Shoulda tried it the minute the show was broadcast. -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it"
