Thoughts on IBM's Watson System

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* Glenn Becker

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Feb 20, 2011, 2:50:27 PM2/20/11

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Here's a link to Peter's Fox News interview

http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/offbeat/after-jeopardy-win-ibm-program-watson-steps-out-021711

His point about the timing is good. Since Watson is getting the questions elecronically and the

human contestants are reading and hearing the questions, how was the display of the question,

transmission of the question, and activation of the buttons ochestrated?

Konrad

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Feb 23, 2011, 8:48:50 PM2/23/11

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Here's an interview with some of the Watson team:
http://blog.reddit.com/2011/02/ibm-watson-research-team-answers-your.html

They seem pretty defensive about the button pressing issue, but I tend
to agree with them. Reaction time is a part of Jeopardy, so
handicapping Watson wouldn't have been fair. Jeopardy is inherently
flawed as a contest of pure knowledge, even among human competitors.
If that's what we want then it makes more sense to simply test all the
contestants on all the questions and compare test scores.

Konrad

On Feb 20, 2:50 pm, * Glenn Becker <glennbec...@cox.net> wrote:
> Here's a link to Peter's Fox News interview
>