secretweapon
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Anyone catch jeopardy last night? IBM built this computer to take on the top two players and just handed it to them. I think it only answered 1 question wrong... skynet anyone?
Growone, do you even know what you're talking about?it is impressive, a very good speech recognition/natural language interface
it's very good at specific task(read context), BUT not so good at other tasks(i think)
did you notice one of the questions it got wrong? gave the same answer that another player just gave
keyed in to the host talking, sucked at understanding another player's speech
you're right in one sense, it was a big bad database setup, that was a mismatchI thought that was stupid. Of course a supercomputer is going to win. You fill it up with terabytes of data, then it's a matter of speed. Even if the humans know the answer, they cannot recall it or buzz in as quickly as a computer. So what have they proven with this? That they can build a supercomputer that can play on Jeopardy? We knew that already.
You worked in Somers?Watson!......................
It's far from stupid. It doesn't just recall an answer. Questions are tricky. It get many answers that it could potentially be, then uses deductive logic to weed out the ones that aren't correct.I thought that was stupid. Of course a supercomputer is going to win. You fill it up with terabytes of data, then it's a matter of speed. Even if the humans know the answer, they cannot recall it or buzz in as quickly as a computer. So what have they proven with this? That they can build a supercomputer that can play on Jeopardy? We knew that already.
i guess not, didn't watch the show, just the news about the resultsIn my opinion, the only reason it really won was because it was able to buzz in much much much faster than the humans.
Growone, do you even know what you're talking about?
The computer has no speech recognition what so ever, Alex Trebek directly stated all of the questions are sent to it in text files.
osssst it was a joke...did you see info on data base and the question....snickerThere is a lot more to it than a simple database and a hard drive.
There is more than 1 million lines of C and some Fortran mainframe code. The idea that IBM has created a super computer that can beat a human is somehow easy is a reflection on how well they did their job.
What is 'no I did not'?osssst it was a joke...did you see info on data base and the question....snicker