Thursday, February 17, 2011

Watson beats humans in Jeopardy

"First it was backgammon. Then checkers and chess. And now game shows. In the battle between man and machine, our silicon opponents just notched up another victory.

The new digital champ is Watson, a supercomputer designed by IBM to play Jeopardy!, a US quiz game famous for its strangely worded clues. Watson polished off two human contestants - former winners Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings - last night in the final of three televised episodes."
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New Buffalo MI fishing said...

Watson does buzz in before the answer is formulated which is similar to how humans respond, but is also unfair in this type of competition as this is a game of mental prowess and not reflex speed. So Watson should not be able to buzz until after it formulates the response to be more fair. Mean it would still win, but perhaps not by as much.