Watson and Jeopardy

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:34:56AM -0500, Peter King wrote:
> 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.

That's right, but it was not certain enough to even buzz in in that case.

> 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.

It very well might already be better at that than some humans. :)

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Len Sorensen
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