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1jam posted on February 16, 2011, 1:39 am
Did anyone see the IBM computer playing Jeopardy..I don't get it. What
exactly was the point of this demonstration?
Sure it has one of the better text to speech engines I've ever heard. And
the speech recognition worked very well (assuming it is using one..?).
But as far as answering trivia questions goes... just rig it up to google or
wolfram alpha.. how can it lose??? Google can answer in milliseconds. While
a human is still listening to the questions.
I'm sure it took some talented comp.sci thinkers to streamline the thing and
get it thru a taping of a tv show without a hitch. Natural language
processing is an interesting area of research, though I don't know to what
degree it is even doing much of that..
But still.. I'm assuming it has many encyclopedia's of knowledge available.
How can it lose? This is nothing like playing chess masters.
exactly was the point of this demonstration?
Sure it has one of the better text to speech engines I've ever heard. And
the speech recognition worked very well (assuming it is using one..?).
But as far as answering trivia questions goes... just rig it up to google or
wolfram alpha.. how can it lose??? Google can answer in milliseconds. While
a human is still listening to the questions.
I'm sure it took some talented comp.sci thinkers to streamline the thing and
get it thru a taping of a tv show without a hitch. Natural language
processing is an interesting area of research, though I don't know to what
degree it is even doing much of that..
But still.. I'm assuming it has many encyclopedia's of knowledge available.
How can it lose? This is nothing like playing chess masters.
kym posted on
Re: Watson / Jeopardy 'robot', whats so cool?
To entertain engineers.
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Joe posted on
Re: Watson / Jeopardy 'robot', whats so cool?
I think that Jeopardy!, at least partially, jumped the shark when they
let winners go on indefinitely, rather than retiring them after five
consecutive wins.
Watching the human "machine" Ken Jennings performing in those dozens of
wins became boring. It's much more fun to watch the program to see what
you might know and the contestants do not, and vice versa.
Jeopardy! probably achieved higher ratings from attracting and holding
the yahoo's that said to themselves "Gaw-lee, he's a right agin!"
Now it's a physical machine against at least one human "machine".
<Yawn...>
--- Joe
krw@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz posted on
Re: Watson / Jeopardy 'robot', whats so cool?
Evidently you're in the minority. It's ratings were soaring at the time.
I take it that you didn't watch it? (BTW, I didn't either)
Re: Watson / Jeopardy 'robot', whats so cool?
Jeopardy! is on at the same time as the first half-hour of reruns of
"Two-and-a-Half Men", Wheel of Fortune, on the same channel as
Jeopardy!, is opposite the second half-hour of reruns of
"Two-and-a-Half Men". Most of the time I watch only the second
half-hour of "Two-and-a-Half Men".
This week I watch both half-hours of the reruns.
I hope old Charlie recovers and straightens out enough to give us more
first-run episodes.
--- Joe
Re: Watson / Jeopardy 'robot', whats so cool?
My point was that evidently the human "machine" sucked.
I really don't care about the woes of the self-absorbed Hollywood nut-baskets.
Re: Watson / Jeopardy 'robot', whats so cool?
I don't see where *you* made that point. I did say it was boring.
My point: I'd rather have Charlie Sheen's comedy than boring,
shark-jumping, yahoo-oriented episodes of Jeopardy! He does have to be
somewhat healthy to make more episodes. Otherwise, I wish they wouldn't
even report on the personal lives of any show-biz types.
--- Joe
Re: Watson / Jeopardy 'robot', whats so cool?
It was a simple comparison - not a list of alternatives.
You were the one who said "I really don't care about the woes of the
self-absorbed Hollywood nut-baskets." I was only addressing your off
the point remark. My mistake.
--- Joe
Re: Watson / Jeopardy 'robot', whats so cool?
"Neither" is a better alternative, even if there aren't any.
Translated: I don't.
"Off point"? Wow! That's rich!
Re: Watson / Jeopardy 'robot', whats so cool?
It looks like you just want to tag one irrelevant comment onto another.
Seems to me that you're just another usenet blubbering old fart.
Piss off.
--- Joe
Re: Watson / Jeopardy 'robot', whats so cool?
That figures. You're incapable of putting two thoughts together.
I suppose it might look that way to a dumbass kid who really cares about
Charlie Sheen, of all losers.
After you kid (but you just can't resist the last word, can you?).
Re: Watson / Jeopardy 'robot', whats so cool?
Here's a thought: You sure seem to care that Charlie's a loser.
Here's another thought: Charlie Sheen might be a loser. I don't care.
Here's yet another(!) thought: I don't give a rodent's arse what you
care about. Now go to your room and leave the attendant's computer
alone!
Your stimulating convo just brings out the intellectual in me. :)
--- Joe
Re: Watson / Jeopardy 'robot', whats so cool?
Dingbat, you're the one who brought him into the conversation.
I you're lying.
You care enough that you can't leave it alone. You *have* to get the last
word in.
I see I wasn't wrong about your depth.
Re: Watson / Jeopardy 'robot', whats so cool?
I totally agree with you about depth. Your depth is so great, I have to
put on boots to wade through your verbiage.
Now, back to you, BOF. :)
--- Joe
Re: Watson / Jeopardy 'robot', whats so cool?
Which simply proves that you really are shallow enough to drown a snail.
You really should have that compulsion to have the last word checked by a
professional. It is a sickness.
Re: Watson / Jeopardy 'robot', whats so cool?
Wow, even deeper! I have to admire your sense of self-righteousness,
you silly BOF! :)
Back atcha, Senor!
--- Jose
Re: Watson / Jeopardy 'robot', whats so cool?
I see that you still want to play, Gospodin, but I must be a little
slower in batting it back to you, because I have a few more important
things to do than to keep you from having the last word, doofuss-amigo!
:)
Incredibly recursive (or is it *inductive*?) of you, you know, that in
order to chide me for doing something, you are ipso facto doing the very
same thing!
Whatta hoot!
--- Joe
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