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Elementary my dear Watson - the Jeopardy Thread (pg. 2)
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| Intangible |
| quote: | Originally posted by Euphorica
it just smokes them at the buzzer...
this is just bs to hype up ibm. its not all that smart. its just a big search engine....
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Its not connected to the internet
And yeah I notice you could here the other 2 contestants jamming away at the trigger desperately trying to get in first
Watson is pretty impressive and I really neat tool for processing all the information out there as they highlighted in the second show.
For anyone who missed this you can watch all 3 days on icefilms.info |
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| mnemonic. |
| So freakin' cool. |
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| jon jon |
| quote: | Originally posted by snak3st
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HAHAHAAHAH |
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| kotsy |
| they spent all that time working on a computer that can answer questions from speech and didn't give it a voice itself? |
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| Prometheus Xex |
| quote: | Originally posted by Intangible
He is oblivious to what's going on in the studio so once he repeated a wrong answer. |
It is interesting because the IBM team was supposed to correct that oversite by telling Watson what the others answered before he submitted his.
| quote: | Originally posted by Euphorica
this is just bs to hype up ibm. its not all that smart. its just a big search engine....
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4 years in the making and 30 million dollars later. More than a search engine. Watch the Nova special "Smartest Machine on Earth" at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/s...e-on-earth.html or download it if you get that dammed regional cockblock. |
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| nsane |
| quote: | Originally posted by kotsy
they spent all that time working on a computer that can answer questions from speech and didn't give it a voice itself? |
wut |
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| VDub |
| quote: | | Lenat broke down IBM's explanation of why Watson guessed "Toronto?" to the clue in the category of "U.S. Cities:" "Namely, the string 'U.S.' often appears in articles near the word 'America,' which appears often near the phrases 'North American' and 'American League,' and so on, all the way to the word 'Toronto.' " |
Interesting read...
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| GGM |
You can say what you want but in the end this comes down to marketing to me. Tons of companies make more impressive systems but you don't hear about it because they'd rather keep it a secret and profitable for them instead of boasting.
30 mil is 30 mil, but I bet IBM could pump that amount into more of their dumbass "smarter planet" commercials and not receive 10% of the hype they got from this tin can turd. |
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| FunkyCrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by VDub
Interesting read...
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nothing strange why he guessed Toronto really - US has 8 Toronto cities (one in TX for example) |
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| VDub |
| quote: | Originally posted by FunkyCrew
nothing strange why he guessed Toronto really - US has 8 Toronto cities (one in TX for example) |
Yes but none of them has a major airport...
And none were named after WWII vets...
The logic for his selection was explained pretty well... |
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