[GLLUG] Watson on Jeopardy

[David Singer]

Given the known font Jeopardy uses and the fixed location of the
screen doing OCR would be trivially simple. Any first year CS student
could do it so why force a very sophisticated system though such a
tedious step?

David

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 06:24, Scott Gates <msgates at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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