http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/ Engadget Comments for IBM's Watson to rival humans in round of Jeopardy! http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/Apr 27th 2009 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/Apr 27th 2009 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/Apr 27th 2009 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/Apr 27th 2009 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/Apr 27th 2009 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/Apr 27th 2009 5:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/Apr 27th 2009 10:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/Apr 27th 2009 10:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/Apr 27th 2009 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/
]]>Apr 27th 2009 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/"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."]]>Apr 27th 2009 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/Apr 27th 2009 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/
No?

Oh...What is 'Ketchup'?]]>Apr 27th 2009 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/Apr 27th 2009 10:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/Apr 27th 2009 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/Apr 27th 2009 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/Apr 27th 2009 10:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/Apr 27th 2009 10:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/Apr 27th 2009 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/Apr 27th 2009 11:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/Apr 27th 2009 10:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/Apr 27th 2009 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/Apr 27th 2009 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/
I for one welcome our new Jeopardy playing overlords.]]>Apr 27th 2009 10:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/Apr 27th 2009 1:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy//need a AI research gig BAD!]]>Apr 27th 2009 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/
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.



]]>Apr 27th 2009 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/Apr 27th 2009 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/
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".]]>Apr 30th 2009 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/Apr 27th 2009 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/Apr 27th 2009 11:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/Apr 27th 2009 6:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/Apr 27th 2009 8:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/
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.]]>Apr 27th 2009 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/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@#$!@$!]]>Apr 27th 2009 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/]]>Apr 27th 2009 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/Apr 27th 2009 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/Apr 27th 2009 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/Apr 27th 2009 12:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/Apr 27th 2009 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/Apr 27th 2009 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/Apr 27th 2009 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/Apr 27th 2009 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/Apr 27th 2009 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/Apr 28th 2009 12:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ibms-watson-to-rival-humans-in-round-of-jeopardy/Apr 28th 2009 2:31AM