Jeopardy: Jennings vs. Rutter vs. Watson, the super-computer -- February 14-16
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Yuck, 2 games over three days. So there is going to be a lot of this.
Plus, no real playing along at home, as they will be displaying Watson's thought process...
Plus, no real playing along at home, as they will be displaying Watson's thought process...
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Yeah that was sort of lame. To make it fair they should have randomly handicapped Watson's response time, so it didn't essentially automatically ring in first every time it thought it knew the answer.
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I don't mind that, they had it pushing an actual button mechanically, so it makes sense to do it that way.
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Re: Jeopardy: Jennings vs. Rutter vs. Watson, the super-computer -- February 14-16
So Watson gets the question as a text message? That seems to stack the deck in favor of Watson due to his sheer processing speed.
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Yeah, but that's sort of the point. You can't just buzz in right away anyway, you have to time it precisely when he's done reading.
The thing that gets me though, is they say it can't hear, so they must be giving it a cue as to when it can buzz in. If they are giving it a cue and they aren't giving it to the other guys, that's not very fair.
The thing that gets me though, is they say it can't hear, so they must be giving it a cue as to when it can buzz in. If they are giving it a cue and they aren't giving it to the other guys, that's not very fair.
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Re: Jeopardy: Jennings vs. Rutter vs. Watson, the super-computer -- February 14-16
Love how Watson zeroed in on the Daily Double right off the bat. I was wondering if they programmed him to target the lower half of the board when Daily Doubles were available.
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Re: Jeopardy: Jennings vs. Rutter vs. Watson, the super-computer -- February 14-16
The one where he repeated a wrong answer was totally bizarre, but I guess if he can't hear, that can happen.
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Yeah, but that's sort of the point. You can't just buzz in right away anyway, you have to time it precisely when he's done reading.
The thing that gets me though, is they say it can't hear, so they must be giving it a cue as to when it can buzz in. If they are giving it a cue and they aren't giving it to the other guys, that's not very fair.
The thing that gets me though, is they say it can't hear, so they must be giving it a cue as to when it can buzz in. If they are giving it a cue and they aren't giving it to the other guys, that's not very fair.
As for repeating the answers, that was weird...I thought they worked that out according to the Nova special (where he would be given access to other contestant's answers).
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Re: Jeopardy: Jennings vs. Rutter vs. Watson, the super-computer -- February 14-16
Yeah, but that's sort of the point. You can't just buzz in right away anyway, you have to time it precisely when he's done reading.
The thing that gets me though, is they say it can't hear, so they must be giving it a cue as to when it can buzz in. If they are giving it a cue and they aren't giving it to the other guys, that's not very fair.
The thing that gets me though, is they say it can't hear, so they must be giving it a cue as to when it can buzz in. If they are giving it a cue and they aren't giving it to the other guys, that's not very fair.
Edit: Bluetoast beat me to it.
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Re: Jeopardy: Jennings vs. Rutter vs. Watson, the super-computer -- February 14-16
The clue for when to buzz in for human players is when a light goes on after Trebek finishes reading. I'm guessing that the light signal is also routed or otherwise alerted to Watson.
As for repeating the answers, that was weird...I thought they worked that out according to the Nova special (where he would be given access to other contestant's answers).
As for repeating the answers, that was weird...I thought they worked that out according to the Nova special (where he would be given access to other contestant's answers).
Has a deaf person ever competed on the show?
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It seems like Rutter was able to get into a rhythm at the end which in trying to research the "buzz in" aspect for Watson looks to be an advantage for the humans since Watson always buzzes the same way.
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OK, I wasn't sure about the light thing. That's fair then. Yes, Watson has an advantage there, but I wouldn't say it's unfair.
Yeah RD, I figured they'd be typing in the opponents answers or something, to avoid that situation. I'm interested to see it's betting strategy. I wonder if they gave him all of Rutter/Jenning's past Final Jeopardy's to learn from.
Yeah RD, I figured they'd be typing in the opponents answers or something, to avoid that situation. I'm interested to see it's betting strategy. I wonder if they gave him all of Rutter/Jenning's past Final Jeopardy's to learn from.
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I don't know about a deaf person competing, but I know a blind person has in the past. Found this out since I was reading the Jeopardy forums yesterday after being led there by Google, and there was some interesting discussion leading up to the match.
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Re: Jeopardy: Jennings vs. Rutter vs. Watson, the super-computer -- February 14-16
Yeah - we discussed the blind champion in the thread last month on Watson. Somebody said he competed against Watson in some of the scrimmages.
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Re: Jeopardy: Jennings vs. Rutter vs. Watson, the super-computer -- February 14-16
So, do you think these were truly "random" type jeopardy questions, or do you think that they were to some specific "Watson" criteria?
I am not saying questions that Watson "knew" the answers to, but were within a vein that it would understand?
I am not saying questions that Watson "knew" the answers to, but were within a vein that it would understand?