This sounds amazing. IBM has created a computer than can compete on Jeopardy and they will have a special event where Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter take on the computer known as Watson. Nova will have a special taking you inside the Watson computer then a few days later Jeopardy will have the actual match. http://ibmsystemsmag.blogs.com/aixchange/2010/12/watson-follows-in-deep-blues-steps.html
With the chess matches between kasparov & deep blue there was enough time even under standard timing for the computer to run it's process ......... in jeopardy they'll need to have the answers almost instantly
The neat thing isn't that they can program a computer with a ton of information - it's if the information can be processed from the questions to return the correct "question" before a person can go through the recall
I would think that the computer would win this hands down. Wouldn't it be ale to hold the entire contents of about every reference material ever created?
I'm pretty sure that I could google every answer on Jeopardy within seconds. This computer must already have the information and be able to spit it out instantly.
I would think that the computer would win this hands down. Wouldn't it be ale to hold the entire contents of about every reference material ever created?
I'm pretty sure that I could google every answer on Jeopardy within seconds. This computer must already have the information and be able to spit it out instantly.
I would think that the computer would win this hands down. Wouldn't it be ale to hold the entire contents of about every reference material ever created?
I'm pretty sure that I could google every answer on Jeopardy within seconds. This computer must already have the information and be able to spit it out instantly.
Watch an episode of Jeopardy and try to google things and see if you can beat the players. There is no way you can do it. Players normally answer within a few seconds and the questions are not straightforward. What makes this so interesting, at leas to me, is the fact that the computer should understand the various wording that the Jeopardy producers use. I think the computer is going to lose.
My biggest question is, will there be a person who controls how much the computer will wagers in final jeopardy or if it gets on of the daily doubles.
That would be interesting - seems like there would be an algorithm that would take a tremendous amount of variables into place to come up with the ideal risk/reward $$ amount for the doubles and adding in the game theory components of what you're opponents can do for final jeopardy
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/m...d=1&adxnnlx=1294815632-pWB8hYWSa8AkBAOg+PzprA
"For the last three years, I.B.M. scientists have been developing what they expect will be the world’s most advanced “question answering” machine, able to understand a question posed in everyday human elocution — “natural language,” as computer scientists call it — and respond with a precise, factual answer. In other words, it must do more than what search engines like Google and Bing do, which is merely point to a document where you might find the answer. It has to pluck out the correct answer itself. Technologists have long regarded this sort of artificial intelligence as a holy grail, because it would allow machines to converse more naturally with people, letting us ask questions instead of typing keywords. Software firms and university scientists have produced question-answering systems for years, but these have mostly been limited to simply phrased questions. Nobody ever tackled “Jeopardy!” because experts assumed that even for the latest artificial intelligence, the game was simply too hard: the clues are too puzzling and allusive, and the breadth of trivia is too wide."
The men-versus-machine contest will consist of two matches and will be aired Feb. 14-16. (PBS' "NOVA" will broadcast a behind-the-scenes look at the development of Watson on Feb. 9.)
This is the kinda stuff Im gonna be doing my research on the next few years, so I cant wait!
I'm skeptical. The questions in the practice round were filled with keywords and quotations. Far more than normal jeopardy-style questions. One question had 3, count them, 3 "Quotations". We'll see how the actual tournament plays out but this seems like little more than a publicity stunt at this point rather than an actual "Breakthrough in AI."
Pretty cool, "Watson" jumped out to a early lead but Jennings and the other dude are buzzing in quicker now, even if they haven't read the question. Trippy.
