JEOPARDY FEB.14-16 MAN VS. WATSON (COMPUTER)

[gregg75]

Reminder that the Jeopardy man vs. computer tournament starts tonight. Who will win
IBM's Watson, Ken Jennings or........?

 

[DToTheJ]

Here's something more interesting: Alex Trebek claims he doesn't do, this.

(What is send text messages, tweet, blog or even go online?)

 

[bpatrick]

Here's something more interesting: Alex Trebek claims he doesn't do, this.

(What is send text messages, tweet, blog or even go online?)

One night last week a contestant tried to get him to get into texting or
tweeting, that he (the contestant) would like to keep in touch with him.
Trebek flatly refused, saying he didn't want his privacy disturbed, and he
wanted to correspond "least of all" with this particular contestant. I watch
"Jeopardy!" nearly every night but I do not now, and never have, liked Trebek.

 

[vchimpanzee]

Here's something more interesting: Alex Trebek claims he doesn't do, this.

(What is send text messages, tweet, blog or even go online?)

One night last week a contestant tried to get him to get into texting or
tweeting, that he (the contestant) would like to keep in touch with him.
Trebek flatly refused, saying he didn't want his privacy disturbed, and he
wanted to correspond "least of all" with this particular contestant. I watch
"Jeopardy!" nearly every night but I do not now, and never have, liked Trebek.

Oh, come on. He wasn't serious.

I don't blame him for not wanting to use technology.

Of course, I felt the same way only ten years ago.

 

[gregg75]

Well the first show focused too much on the computer and too little on the game.
Hopefully the next will be more game-like.

 

[landtuna]

I was very disappointed in the method of submitting questions to Watson. The human players had to play the normal game but Watson got a multiple choice to pick from.

I remember being involved in natural language processors back in the early 70's and didn't see then how they could have done it. They've gotten much better but still a long way to go. Language, particularly American English has got to be one of the most difficult of all languages to decode.

I was interested in the explanation of the computer. I don't think most viewers outside the IT world would have understood it otherwise. So they're stretching the game into three segments. It's OK for this time around.

 

[Robnoxious]

I was very disappointed in the method of submitting questions to Watson. The human players had to play the normal game but Watson got a multiple choice to pick from.

You didn't fully understand the pop-up graphics you saw. Those are the answers Watson and Watson alone deciphered from the clue with the percentage of certainty of it's top 3 answer candidates.

Goto PBS.org and watch last week's Nova. They spent the entire show into the making of Watson. Jeopardy reused some of the footage on Monday's show (the Coffee-Mate/Milk answer in particular) and went into more detail on how Watson got there through it's logic.

 

[gregg75]

I think Rob is right. Watson appeared to compile a list of about the top 50 possible answers
and then pick the one "he" felt was the most correct.

 

[Bill_W]

I think Rob is right. Watson appeared to compile a list of about the top 50 possible answers
and then pick the one "he" felt was the most correct.

That is what they said on the show last night. It is Watson's top 3 answers based on the algorithms it uses.

 

[landtuna]

Yup. I stand corrected. I came in a few minutes late (when they were already asking questions). :-[

 

[ajc_trw]

Tonight's show is taking far too much time highlighting Watson. At this rate they'll have to cut right to the game for tomorrow's show.

BTW the audio dropouts on KABC were annoying.

 

[Darth_vader]

I have it on right now. The robotic voice that computer system uses almost sounds like what the answering machine on my other line uses.

[size=7pt](There MattParker, I'm watching something that's not PBS (KATU.) I'm right within the target demographic. Ya happy now?)

 

[adam95]

Forgot about it last night but seen it tonight after hearing about it on one of this morning's news shows...I think Jeopary! has officially jumped the shark. I can't be the only one that hinks this way, right?

 

[gregg75]

I'm not sure what "Jump The Shark" means.......they avoided death.........????

From what I hear they are getting a lot of ratings from this. See the syndication board.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

Each of these "special" shows should be logged as a 30-min. commercial for IBM.

 

[DToTheJ]

I'm not sure what "Jump The Shark" means.......they avoided death.........????

Not a "Happy Days" fan, are ya? :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpraJYnbVtE

 

[gregg75]

I was a fan of Happy Days way back in 1975. Today, Happy Days is more like a
cartoon with a laugh track.