JEOPARDY! Challenge

-Submitted by David Drumm (Nal), Guest Blogger

Just a reminder for those who may have forgotten. The JEOPARDY! Challenge is this coming week: Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Check your local listings for time and channel.

This is a history making event. You won’t want to miss it. You can watch the NOVA episode “Smartest Machine on Earth”, here.

55 thoughts on “JEOPARDY! Challenge”

  1. Here is part 1/2 from tonight. Watson is stunning in its speed but makes some very basic errors too, generally from not understanding the categorization of the answer it needs to give. I think one of the most surprising moments was a question that none of these three top level players buzzed in on. I wasn’t expecting that to happen.

    I don’t see part 2/2 up yet, but will post it when it shows:

  2. puzzling,

    I don’t think learning is thinking per se. Learning is getting better at pattern recognition through experience. Which is what Watson does very well. Thinking has a creative component that machines cannot do . . . yet.

  3. Buddha, you mentioned “It’s really just a very complex form of pattern recognition – an expert system as opposed to a truly thinking machine.”

    Is learning thinking? Watson performs better purely with experience, therefore it learns on its own without being given any new rules or methodologies.

    That said, I am curious if the category choice Watson uses was explicitly programmed or learned through its game practice with humans. It seems to jump around a lot, perhaps due to confidence in category titles, or perhaps in part to “shift gears” quickly on the human mind. That gear shifting wouldn’t affect Watson’s performance, but would be a bit of distraction to many players.

  4. I am sending along (virtually) a big slab of BBQ’d pork ribs and a cold brew to go along with the song.

    Thanks CEJ for reminding me.

  5. BIL! Happy Happy Birthday Baby!

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoGKt33lbCg&w=480&h=390]

  6. Thank you again, CEJ. I’m both surprised and humbled that you remembered. 🙂

  7. Oops! Sorry about the link failures I hope the next/last one works; fingers crossed!

    I believe today is our BIL’s Birthday!

    Happy Birthday Buddha!

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