[GLLUG] Watson on Jeopardy

[Scott Gates]

it SHOULD have to either do speech recognition or optical character
recognition.   (or BOTH)

Humans do it, why can't it?

Ditto for video and picture catagories.  Receiving it's answers by
text message is a leg up it doesn't deserve.

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 1:26 AM, Chick Tower <c.e.tower at gmail.com> wrote:
> IBM's Watson computer will be playing on Jeopardy next Monday through
> Wednesday.  PBS's Nova had an episode on tonight about it, and it plays
> pretty impressively when it doesn't make bone-headed mistakes.  Since it
> can't hear Alex Trebek read the clues, it will receive them via text
> messages, as well as the correct questions, so it will still be learning as
> it plays.  I saw on the LinuxToday website that it runs SuSE Linux.
>
> Jeopardy comes on at 7:30 p.m. on WILX, which is Channel 10 on over-the-air
> TV.
> --
>
>                               Chick
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