IBM's Watson AI Jeopardy practice match

http://venturebeat.com/2011/01/13/ibm...

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[yugiohtrcx]

Alex: It makes the heart a flutter and comes in an instant. Men and women become weak from it. Kingdoms have been brought down by it and Tina Turner sang of it

Watson: What is Heart Disease?

Alex: Wrong

Ken: What is Love?

Alex: Correct

Watson: Love is an illogical human emotion which hinders the progress of man, in essence making humans illogical. Humanity is an imperfect species which must be remedied in order to obtain perfection...by any means necessary

Alex: O.O

Brad: O.O

Ken: O.O

[Pokedude1013]

Let's finish chicks dig me

[Jezda70]

Evolution

[Liuthareis]

Watson has been programmed* not to answer in certain situations, based on the scores and on how "sure" he is about his answer. *) Or maybe they also used machine learning to "train" him.

[William Cable]

Why is it that we humans are trying so hard to make ourselves obsolete

[FrozenBagels]

OK, now let's play Global Thermonuclear War!

[Pitviper1979]

Why is it I get the feeling that the computer was holding back or being held back. It never answered wrong a single time. I wonder if the questions that it did not answer, it simple was not allowed to hear (communication line being blocked temporarily). This might be a thinking machine and the public is just not allowed to know the details.

[dmahurdle]

Brad reminds me of Wil Wheaton lol

[EpiczGame]

I'm not here to start an argument, but if you read up on the program itself it does say it simply uses VERY complex algorithms to come up with a best answer from a set of information it already has been given, not from previous questions.

[AdorableChipmunk]

2:45 misread

[MrElvey]

Umm... yeah. JF google it! I'd bet my beard the wikipedia article on jeopardy describes or links to the a description of the game. In Jeopardy, the question and answer are reversed from what's normal. The challenge, as I understand it, is to state a (non-trivial) question for which the answer given is correct. But IIRC I've never been told how the game works, but I think I figured it out by watching. I could be wrong, but 4 kicks I'm going to go ahead and post this w/o checking!

[ElfenSky]

wtf?? I don't understand the program... Do they like ask questions and people +watson have to answer them? Cuz I can't see any questions there... It's watson taht poses questions.. wtf, I'm so confused...