Re:Day 1: IBM Watson Ties for first on Jeopardy
by derwiki on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @11:36AM
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But if the question takes 20 seconds to read, Watson has 20 of his seconds to narrow down his confidence to a particular answer. If he only had 10 seconds, his calculations might not have gone far enough to bubble the correct answer on top. It would be interesting to see a chart of confidence of answers vs time for Watson..
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Re:Day 1: IBM Watson Ties for first on Jeopardy
by dfan on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @11:46AM
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But the same is true for the human contestants; at this level especially, I'm sure that they scan the whole question in a second and then have the rest of the spoken time (which, even for long questions, is nowhere near 20 seconds - probably more like 4) to think about it.