IBM's already proven that a computer from its labs can take on the world's best at chess, but what'll happen when the boundaries of a square-filled board are removed? Researchers at the outfit are obviously excited to find out, today revealing that its Watson system will be pitted against brilliant Earthlings on Jeopardy! in an attempt to further artificial intelligence when it comes to semantics and searching for indexed information. Essentially, the machine will have to be remarkably labile in order to understand "analogies, puns, double entendres and relationships like size and location," something that robotic linguists have long struggled with. There's no mention of a solid date when it comes to the competition itself, but you can bet we'll be setting our DVRs whenever it's announced. Check out a video of the progress after the break.
ROFL! IBM is so debt in money they cheat ABC out of money by making there robots answer everything correctly as they rake in the money for them. Kidding don't worry this sounds cool.
"Wassup Holmes?" "What, son? "He's running up the hill, see?" "Fast, on his trail!" "But Holmes, the girls want some." "No you can't." "Why not?" "Elementary school, my dear Watson."
If a computer can beat a human in Jeopardy, I suspect the organization that should be most scared is Google wondering what IBM might have up its sleeve for it's own search engine.
If Jeopardy (i.e. Sony who owns the show) and IBM structure the show so that for the first few days the audience is not aware which of the contestants is a computer and ask the audience to identify the computerat the end of each show. It would be a great dataset for a Turing test.
IBM beat us (humans) in chess because the server cheated, instead to think in the best move, this server used a hugest database of predefined moves (many moves invented by human).
So, Jeopardy is a "piece of cake", the server must remember almost any possible question/answer in Jeopardy. Of course, the Achilles Heel is to avoid question involving math and history and directly ask about unicorn.
My thoughts exactly. The machine could technically always beat the humans to the buzzer, then use that 2 seconds after the buzzer to research the answer, and finally answer. The delay would be near imperceptible to Alex, especially if you take into account some of the multi-second hemming and hawing some of the contestants do.
That'd be great if it had a ridiculous default answer, for when it couldn't find the real answer in time...
Alex: "Robotron 4000, your answer" ROBOTRON4000: "Uuuuummmmm...Errrrr...." Alex: "I'm sorry, no, Julia how ab-" ROBOTRON4000: "I'M THE COCK OF THE WALK." Alex: "Yeesss...thank you for that".
I predict at least two or three separate occasions stretching some 5 years forward where they trot Ken Jennings and a few others out to play against Watson, as it loses first but gets closer and closer every time until finally Jennings loses his cool during Double Jeopardy and Watson opens an insurmountable lead, coasting to a $1 wager in Final Jeopardy and merely answers "I WIN" for the final question.
PS Apparently Jennings was quite the master of buzzer timing, too. I think you just have to wait until Trebek is done with the question, so it could maybe scan the displayed question and then time Trebek's speaking cadence and get it down to milisecond precision.
Alex Trebek: Let's meet our next Jeopardy contestant. Please welcome....John Henry John Henry: Hello, would you like to play a game with me? Alex Trebek: Of course John that's why we're here. John Henry: Oh good, I like playing games. Alex Trebek: Next to John Henry we have Watson Watson: H.E.L.L.O. Alex Trebek: Finally give a warm welcome to Skynet! Skynet: DESTROY ALL HUMANS! Alex Trebek: Now Now Skynet cheating is not All...ARGH@#$!@$!
A friend of mine at IBM says that Watson can come up with the right answers most of the time but the big problem is getting it to preface the answer with "What is ". For some reason that part of the solution still alludes them today.
"What's the best gaming laptop for under 1,500 bucks? I had my eye on the P7805u (Gateway), but it seems Best Buy has run out for the time being. Also, as a secondary question, I like the specs on brands such as iBUYPOWER and CyberPower and the like, but are they reliable? I'm a little worried about buying labels that aren't huge like Dell, Gateway, etc. Thanks!"
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posted Apr 27th 2009 9:56AM
not to be a downer...but isnt jeopardy still a square-filled board?
suck it trebeck
Best comment of this thread, no matter if someone says otherwise! :p
You mean "WHAT IS the best comment of this thread?"
You think you're pretty smart, don't you, Trebek? What with your Diego mustache and your greasy hair!
I'll take Ape tit for $400
They should have named it Turd Furgeson. Ha! Turd Furgeson. That's a funny name.
ROFL! IBM is so debt in money they cheat ABC out of money by making there robots answer everything correctly as they rake in the money for them. Kidding don't worry this sounds cool.
Jeopardy has nothing to do with ABC, it's produced by Sony Pictures Television.
ibm really isnt all that in debt . . . at all it still remains one of (if not) the most profitable IT company in the world
"Wassup Holmes?"
"What, son?
"He's running up the hill, see?"
"Fast, on his trail!"
"But Holmes, the girls want some."
"No you can't."
"Why not?"
"Elementary school, my dear Watson."
Watson is a pedo?
What is 'The Eslavement of the Human Race by us robots'?
No?
Oh...What is 'Ketchup'?
now that... is awesome :D
I'm feeling much better now, Dave.
Didn't they already do this with that "Ken Jennings" robot?
Actually, they're already done--the machine already plays Jeopardy as well as Sean Connery!
If a computer can beat a human in Jeopardy, I suspect the organization that should be most scared is Google wondering what IBM might have up its sleeve for it's own search engine.
Say hello to Skynet...
if watson can answer that final jeopardy question, it will mean that he has already become self-aware O.O
If the robot doesn't answer "Kebert Xela" to at least one problem, it sucks...
If Jeopardy (i.e. Sony who owns the show) and IBM structure the show so that for the first few days the audience is not aware which of the contestants is a computer and ask the audience to identify the computerat the end of each show. It would be a great dataset for a Turing test.
Come to think of it, this could be a clever ad for the Cell processor.
Wait. You gave it access to Google?
I for one welcome our new Jeopardy playing overlords.
"What is Google."
oh snap, I got wood!
/need a AI research gig BAD!
IBM beat us (humans) in chess because the server cheated, instead to think in the best move, this server used a hugest database of predefined moves (many moves invented by human).
So, Jeopardy is a "piece of cake", the server must remember almost any possible question/answer in Jeopardy. Of course, the Achilles Heel is to avoid question involving math and history and directly ask about unicorn.
Silly IBM, Jeopardy are for humans.
How do they program it to have imperfect reaction times for buzzing in? Or is it a standard/average delay?
My thoughts exactly. The machine could technically always beat the humans to the buzzer, then use that 2 seconds after the buzzer to research the answer, and finally answer. The delay would be near imperceptible to Alex, especially if you take into account some of the multi-second hemming and hawing some of the contestants do.
That'd be great if it had a ridiculous default answer, for when it couldn't find the real answer in time...
Alex: "Robotron 4000, your answer"
ROBOTRON4000: "Uuuuummmmm...Errrrr...."
Alex: "I'm sorry, no, Julia how ab-"
ROBOTRON4000: "I'M THE COCK OF THE WALK."
Alex: "Yeesss...thank you for that".
"I'll take 'The Enslavement of Human Kind' for $400, Alex."
PEW-PEW, PEW-PEW, PEW-PEW
What is the sound of lazorz?
The Daily Double, of course.
I predict at least two or three separate occasions stretching some 5 years forward where they trot Ken Jennings and a few others out to play against Watson, as it loses first but gets closer and closer every time until finally Jennings loses his cool during Double Jeopardy and Watson opens an insurmountable lead, coasting to a $1 wager in Final Jeopardy and merely answers "I WIN" for the final question.
PS Apparently Jennings was quite the master of buzzer timing, too. I think you just have to wait until Trebek is done with the question, so it could maybe scan the displayed question and then time Trebek's speaking cadence and get it down to milisecond precision.
Alex Trebek: Let's meet our next Jeopardy contestant. Please welcome....John Henry
John Henry: Hello, would you like to play a game with me?
Alex Trebek: Of course John that's why we're here.
John Henry: Oh good, I like playing games.
Alex Trebek: Next to John Henry we have Watson
Watson: H.E.L.L.O.
Alex Trebek: Finally give a warm welcome to Skynet!
Skynet: DESTROY ALL HUMANS!
Alex Trebek: Now Now Skynet cheating is not All...ARGH@#$!@$!
Has someone actually checked to make sure this isn't just Ken Jennings in a box?
if thats watson in the picture beside the human, how the hell are they going to fit all of that behind the answering booth?
Ultimate facepalm.
A friend of mine at IBM says that Watson can come up with the right answers most of the time but the big problem is getting it to preface the answer with "What is ". For some reason that part of the solution still alludes them today.
lets just hope it uses google as its brain and not msn or yahoo
isn't this the Yahoo! Answers bot we've all been waiting for?
Alex Trebek is training his robot army to take over and eliminate the US and leave Canada as the leader of the free world!
I am now telling the computer *exactly* what it can do with a life time supply of chocolate.
..."size and location..." ?? I thought size didn't matter?
This is the new Deep Blue of Jeopardy!
this is what happens when you smoke weed kids