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Author:  Flama22 [ Wed Feb 16, 2011 10:26 am ]
Post subject:  Watson
I'm surprised a thread for this hasn't been started yet but has anyone been following Watson (IBM's Supercomputer) on Jeopardy the last two nights? He's currently in the lead winning the first game easily but man some of his responses are funny. In final Jeopardy last night the question was along the lines of "What US City has an airport named after a WW2 hero and a WW2 battle" and Watson's answer was, and I quote: "What is Toronto?????". ;)

The final match is on tonight at 8:30 on the HD channels... might be 7:30 for SD ones.
Author:  CMDR Steve-O [ Wed Feb 16, 2011 10:49 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Watson
I meant to watch it, but alas I was preoccupied with drinking.

Hopefully I'm smart enough to put a reminder on for tonite.

There was a faily long 20 minute segment on how Watson came be on a PBS Nova show.
Author:  Flama22 [ Wed Feb 16, 2011 2:04 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Watson
CMDR Steve-O wrote:
There was a faily long 20 minute segment on how Watson came be on a PBS Nova show.


There was an hour long special on Nova for him actually and ya I watched that as well. Interesting stuff, and super funny when he gets things wrong. ;)

I also laugh when they ask him how much he'd like to wager on Double Jeopardy's and where a human would take many things into consideration and then round off the number, Watson takes many things into consideration and gives a very precise number based on his algorithms (ie. A Human may wager $2000 and Watson may wager $1971).
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