Watson and Jeopardy

[Peter King]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:07:14AM -0500, John Myshrall wrote:

> Toronto was so far out in left field it fails on the first litmus test. 
> The answer was followed by many question marks and it only wager 
> <$1000.00 yet it had a $25000.00 lead.

Ahhh, you're not a diehard Jeopardy fan!  The rules are that you make your
Final Jeopardy wager after you know the category, but before you hear the 
"answer" to which you respond with a "question".

Note that Watson came up with an incorrect answer on Monday that similarly 
ignored the information included in the category -- I think it was a single
year for a category that needed a response by a decade.

I've been very impressed by Watson's ability to parse natural-language
queries of almost all sorts (puns, jokes, riddles, etc.). That's a large
step towards passing the Turing Test.

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