Watson and Jeopardy

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 08:01:33PM -0500, Jason Carson wrote:
> Anyone catch Jeopardy tonight. It was the two best Jeopardy players (Ken
> Jennings and Brad Rutter) against an IBM Machine called Watson.
> 
> http://www.jeopardy.com/minisites/watson/
> 
> It tied for first place in the first round. The second round will be
> played tomorrow. Very impressive.

Yeah that was neat.  Interesting to see watson's top three answers.
Even when it didn't buzz in first it usually had the right answer
ranked highest.  A few times it had the right answer at a lower rank,
and sometimes it was just totally off in the weeds and didn't even have
an answer that was valid for the category (like a year for a category
asking for decades).

Also too bad it has no way to know what other players answered if they
get it wrong (hence the duplicate answer provided).  It seems to only
get the clue, whether its answer is right or wrong, and what the right
answer was.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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