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Not Exactly Elementary, Watson
« on: February 16, 2011, 11:31:48 pm »
Watched the 3 Jeopardy episodes of IBM's Supercomputer Watson, playing 2 of the best hUman players, and dominated.

Very enjoyable game.  :thumbup: :thumbup:

http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/What+blowout+Computer+destroys+humans+Jeopardy/4298139/story.html
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Re: Not Exactly Elementary, Watson
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2011, 11:35:06 pm »
US Cities:  Answer?  TORONTO??


 :rofl2:
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Re: Not Exactly Elementary, Watson
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2011, 11:37:23 pm »
Programmed by US educated engineers, very sad answer.

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Re: Not Exactly Elementary, Watson
« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2011, 06:58:35 am »
Quote from: rrocket on February 16, 2011, 11:35:06 pm
US Cities:  Answer?  TORONTO??


 :rofl2:


I might be wrong, but there is a city of Toronto in the US somewhere IIRC.
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Re: Not Exactly Elementary, Watson
« Reply #4 on: February 17, 2011, 07:08:22 am »
Quote from: rrocket on February 16, 2011, 11:35:06 pm
US Cities:  Answer?  TORONTO??


 :rofl2:

Yes, I laughed at that one...I thought, 'has two airports, so it's a larger city, definitely not New York, must be...Chicago'...and when I saw that Watson had said Toronto, I laughed.
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Re: Not Exactly Elementary, Watson
« Reply #5 on: February 17, 2011, 09:07:33 am »
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How could the machine have been so wrong? David Ferrucci, the manager of the Watson project at IBM Research, explained during a  viewing of the show on Monday morning that several things probably confused Watson. First, the category names on Jeopardy! are tricky. The answers often do not exactly fit the category. Watson, in his training phase,  learned that categories only weakly suggest the kind of answer that is expected, and, therefore, the machine downgrades their significance.  The way the language was parsed provided an advantage for the humans and a disadvantage for Watson, as well. “What US city” wasn’t in the question. If it had been, Watson would have given US cities much more weight as it searched for the answer. Adding to the confusion for Watson, there are cities named Toronto in the United States and the Toronto in Canada has an American League baseball team. It probably picked up those facts from the written material it has digested. Also, the machine didn’t find much evidence to connect either city’s airport to World War II. (Chicago was a very close second on Watson’s list of possible answers.) So this is just one of those situations that’s a snap for a reasonably knowledgeable human but a true brain teaser for the machine.

http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2011/02/watson-on-jeopardy-day-two-the-confusion-over-an-airport-clue.html

I think its an interesting experiment. For their next 'stunt' they should offer Google a chance to go up against Watston, would be an interesting fight.
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Re: Not Exactly Elementary, Watson
« Reply #6 on: February 17, 2011, 10:53:57 am »
Quote from: quadzilla on February 17, 2011, 09:07:33 am
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How could the machine have been so wrong? David Ferrucci, the manager of the Watson project at IBM Research, explained during a  viewing of the show on Monday morning that several things probably confused Watson. First, the category names on Jeopardy! are tricky. The answers often do not exactly fit the category. Watson, in his training phase,  learned that categories only weakly suggest the kind of answer that is expected, and, therefore, the machine downgrades their significance.  The way the language was parsed provided an advantage for the humans and a disadvantage for Watson, as well. “What US city” wasn’t in the question. If it had been, Watson would have given US cities much more weight as it searched for the answer. Adding to the confusion for Watson, there are cities named Toronto in the United States and the Toronto in Canada has an American League baseball team. It probably picked up those facts from the written material it has digested. Also, the machine didn’t find much evidence to connect either city’s airport to World War II. (Chicago was a very close second on Watson’s list of possible answers.) So this is just one of those situations that’s a snap for a reasonably knowledgeable human but a true brain teaser for the machine.

http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2011/02/watson-on-jeopardy-day-two-the-confusion-over-an-airport-clue.html

I think its an interesting experiment. For their next 'stunt' they should offer Google a chance to go up against Watston, would be an interesting fight.

Here ya go:

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Google&word2=Watson
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Re: Not Exactly Elementary, Watson
« Reply #7 on: February 17, 2011, 10:58:03 am »
I had fun watching the 3 days... they went too quickly. Think IBM's Watson is an amazing achievement (to be able to interpret the ambiguous questions, nevermind respond so quickly, etc), and quite entertaining to watch.

Was pleased the 2 other players appeared light hearted at the end of last night's show after being crushed by Watson, with Ken's comment "I for one welcome our new computer overlords" and them mocking the avatar. 
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Re: Not Exactly Elementary, Watson
« Reply #8 on: February 17, 2011, 11:14:36 am »
That was fun - even Watson's attempts at humour and his bidding was quite interesting. But Toronto - that must have been done to honour Alex.
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Re: Not Exactly Elementary, Watson
« Reply #9 on: February 17, 2011, 11:15:29 am »
Sooner or later all these little threads of research will get joined up and something useful will appear.

The DARPA Urban Challenge autonomous vehicles, another generation of computer vision and recognition plus Watson to make an automated taxi for instance.

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Re: Not Exactly Elementary, Watson
« Reply #10 on: February 17, 2011, 12:34:47 pm »
Then skynet will become self aware.
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Re: Not Exactly Elementary, Watson
« Reply #11 on: February 17, 2011, 12:48:09 pm »
Quote from: carcrazy on February 17, 2011, 06:58:35 am
Quote from: rrocket on February 16, 2011, 11:35:06 pm
US Cities:  Answer?  TORONTO??


 :rofl2:


I might be wrong, but there is a city of Toronto in the US somewhere IIRC.

There is a Toronto, Ohio. 
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Re: Not Exactly Elementary, Watson
« Reply #12 on: February 17, 2011, 01:58:09 pm »
 ::) where GTA losers go to die??????  AND retire from the BIG MESS... :rofl:.................
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Re: Not Exactly Elementary, Watson
« Reply #13 on: February 17, 2011, 04:15:38 pm »
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Re: Not Exactly Elementary, Watson
« Reply #14 on: February 17, 2011, 06:22:46 pm »
Quote from: tpl on February 17, 2011, 11:15:29 am
Sooner or later all these little threads of research will get joined up and something useful will appear.

The DARPA Urban Challenge autonomous vehicles, another generation of computer vision and recognition plus Watson to make an automated taxi for instance.



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