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OT: Jeopardy - Watson has unfair advantage?

Is it just me or do others concur? It appears that Watson's electronic response times beat the human's in pressing the signaling button. I don't know when the gate opens or how this is signaled to the contestants. I do believe it is not open while Trebek is reading the answer based on observations of contestants madly clicking the buttons on regular games. Even on simple questions Watson wins the signal race hands down and seems to have an unfair advantage. Art

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Artemus
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hile

I saw a couple of occasions where Watson had a high confidence in the correct answer but lost the buzzer race. I am sure that a lot of thought went into exactly when to give Watson the right to hit the buzzer (ie should they handicap the game against Watson). This was an exhibition so I am sure they decided to not handicap Watson even though it is clearly an advantage to Watson to not take away a little reaction time. Both the human players walked away with a lot of dough to lose :-)

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brent

hile

How did Watson get the questions? OCR/speech recognition, or more "directly"?

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cassiope

AIUI, speech recognition. That (natural speech/language) was the larger problem.

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krw

If so, its massively impressive. Goodbye Human staffed call centers

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Dirk

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Dirk Bruere at NeoPax

The last syllable of the last word of the clue. I've tried out for Jeopardy at least three times; the first time I passed the screening test, but choked on the mock game; the other times I didn't even get through the test.

I beat both Watson and Ken last night! The category was "keys on the keyboard" or some such, and the clue was "a garment that hangs straight down from the shoulders."

Watson guessed "chenille," which isn't even a key; Ken guessed "A?" (presumably from "A-line dress"), and Brad didn't even ring in.

I GOT IT! The answer was "What is 'shift?'"

I'm so proud of myself I can't even shit!

Cheers! Rich

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Rich Grise

Directly in text form. It doesn't have speech input, according to all the schtuff that's been on TeeVee and the web lately.

And, BTW, IBM had to make some klooge so that Watson could push the same signaling button that the humans had to.

Cheers! Rich

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Rich Grise

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Cheers! Rich

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Rich Grise

In which case we are merely looking at Google 2.0

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Dirk

http://www.neopax.com/technomage/ - My new book - Magick and Technology
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Dirk Bruere at NeoPax

Dirk Bruere at NeoPax expounded in news: snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net:

If the computer gets to operate in parallel, the humans should too. Let the human contestants bring friends!

Warren

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Warren

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Not completely, even though it already happened a few years back. 10% = the staffing now (versus a few years ago) for when the computer cannot cut through heavy accents, excited callers, etc.,

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josephkk

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