Since Dave lives in New Paltz and is an excellent presenter, any possibility of inviting him to speak at the MHLUG about Watson and other technologies he's involved with at IBM or on his own?
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Sean Dague <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/17/2011 12:34 PM, Frank Wallingford wrote: > >> If I remember correctly, the NOVA special talks about this. Watson >> does get fed the answers from the other contestants, but sometimes >> knows that if he's confident in an answer and another contestant gives >> a similar but not exactly the same answer, that he may just need to >> give the more exact answer. >> >> Now, I'm not sure if he was fed the "20s" answer during the show, and >> if so, if it was in time for Watson to avoid buzzing in, but if he >> was, he might have just been assuming that "20s" wasn't specific >> enough, and "1920s" was going to be correct, so he could have just >> been buzzing in to "correct" Ken's answer. >> >> This is speculation, but I think it's unfair to say it was embarrassing. >> > > The New Paltz 2 day event was great for providing this kind of context, and > we got lots of questions answered from Dave Shepler, the project manager. > > Watson receives the correct answer after a question is complete, it doesn't > get fed wrong answers during the question. The duplicate wrong answer > happened so infrequently during the matches (twice out of 55 games), they > were willing to live with it, and focused attention else where. > > I'm sure we'll be talking about this more at dinner after the next meeting. > We had a pretty good MHVLUG turnout at both NP nights, and we got a lot of > question time with Shepler, so if anyone else is interested more, I'd > suggest coming out to the meeting in March. > > -Sean > > -- > > __________________________________________________________________ > Sean Dague Learn about the Universe with the > sean at dague dot net Mid-Hudson Astronomical Association > http://dague.net http://midhudsonastro.org > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Mar 2 - MHVLUG 8th Anniversary - Show and Tell > Apr 6 - Introduction to IPv6 > May 4 - Inkscape >
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