IBM Supercomputer "Watson" Takes on Jeopardy! Champs

[lady_oneiros]

I've never posted to this community before, but I thought that this was just too cool not to share

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[darkblysse]

Watson cannot 'see' nor 'hear' Alex or the other players.

There was an example of that already; Ken got an answer wrong and Watson gave the same incorrect answer that Ken had.

If the IBM guys could eventually work in a way for Watson to 'see' and 'hear' and learn from what he 'sees' and 'hears', that would make him scarily awesome.

[gothtique]

I don't usually watch game shows... but this one might be interesting.
Thank you for sharing!

[repura]

I think a much more awesome application would be to government itself: "would this new public policy bring the desired results?" It would possibly be the first time in history where politics would get a scientific approach of making decisions based on actual evidence. Of course we all know the computer would get design flaws introduced long before making its first decision, much like voting machines. u_u

[bec_87rb]

Skynet.

[anonymissity]

+1

[tom_morrow]

I set my DVR to record these Jeopardy episodes. Somehow it missed the first one. I have worked in the computer field for 35 years and was amazed. The speed at which Watson responded rarely gave the humans a chance.
Its ability to understand the question was phenomenal.
It just might be te beginning of Skynet!