> > 'Alex, I refuse to dignify that answer with a question' as an old cartoon > that's near and dear to my heart says .. >
Yes, I hope they put up a video on You Tube. They are hoping grand champion Ken Jennings will take part, but then I suppose not everybody is a Kasparov who can take the ego deflation of losing to a machine publicly :) Or perhaps it was his brash self-confidence that made him agree. Nevertheless, it should be quite interesting. I wonder if they will publicly share the path taken for each answer by Watson. Since finding the answer once it knows what its looking for would only take a trillionth of a second for a computer while that is what takes longer for a human, I'm guessing they didn't try to model the path an experienced quizzer would follow, but adapted it to the strengths and weaknesses of a computer. I have not quizzed much, but I always used to enjoy questions where they asked you to find the relationship between seemingly unrelated items. Image, sound processing complexities aside, this would be very easy for a computer I'd presume. Kiran
