[GLLUG] Watson on Jeopardy

Scott Gates msgates at gmail.com
Thu Feb 10 19:23:54 EST 2011


I know, there's not much difference between the spoken words
"RECOGNIZE SPEECH" and "WRECK A NICE BEACH". BUT, I'm a purist.

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Chick Tower <c.e.tower at gmail.com> wrote:
> I wasn't clear on the texting of the correct questions.  They will be sent
> after clues are answered correctly, not to provide Watson with his (the show
> always referred to it with male pronouns) responses, but to provide him the
> correct responses afterwards.  That's only fair, since the humans hear the
> correct response.  One of the examples was a category that listed holidays
> and the response would be the month they fall in.  Watson tried to respond
> to the first clue in that category, but it was obvious he had no idea how to
> respond.  All he said was "What is holiday?"  By the end of that category,
> after learning the correct responses to the first four clues, Watson
> responded correctly to the fifth clue.
>
> As to why computers have so much trouble with natural language, that's an
> incredibly difficult problem to solve.  We don't know how people do it.
>  It's not at all like chess, with its strict rules, restricted board, and
> one clear goal.  I think it's amazing that they could make Watson capable
> enough to compete on Jeopardy at a higher level than most humans can,
> against humans.
>
>
>                               Chick
>
> On 02/10/2011 08:24 AM, Scott Gates 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.
>
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