Technology IBM's Watson supercomputer destroys all humans in Jeopardy practice round (video!)

[phyrex1an]

So, in February IBM's Watson will be in an official Jeopardy tournament-style competition with titans of trivia Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. That competition will be taped starting tomorrow, but hopefully we'll get to know if a computer really can take down the greatest Jeopardy players of all time in "real time" as the show airs. It will be a historic event on par with Deep Blue vs. Garry Kasparov, and we'll absolutely be glued to our seats. Today IBM and Jeopardy offered a quick teaser of that match, with the three contestants knocking out three categories at lightning speed. Not a single question was answered wrongly, and at the end of the match Watson, who answers questions with a cold computer voice, telegraphing his certainty with simple color changes on his "avatar," was ahead with $4,400, Ken had $3,400, and Brad had $1,200.

IBM's Watson supercomputer destroys all humans in Jeopardy practice round (video!)

So, in February IBM's Watson will be in an official Jeopardy tournament-style competition with titans of trivia Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. That competition will be taped starting tomorrow, but hopefully we'll get to know if a computer really can take down the greatest Jeopardy players of all...

www.engadget.com

 

[seph ir oth]

One word: INTENSE!

Just watched the video. The computer seems to be really slow with Hollywood-based questions as well as non-straightforward ones (book fill in the blank, for example).

It gets the straight factual ones right away.

 

[Sim]

This is cool! Thanks for sharing.

I like how it said "What is [...]" and "Who is [...]"

 

[Sajin]

Terminator is coming >.>

 

[xPass]

Pwn!

 

[FireCat]

Well, watson aren't "super" perfect and makes a lot of mistakes as well.

 

[ReVolver]

it's HAL 9000