You're actually talking substantial AI - some of those connections can be so
damned arbit, its worse than '6 degrees of separation' .. so the only
feasible answer would be Kevin Bacon, or maybe Udhay Shankar.
srs
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Kiran K Karthikeyan
Sent: Thursday, 30 April 2009 5:53 PM
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Subject: Re: [silk] IBM's Watson on Jeopardy
>
> '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
