Re:Day 1: IBM Watson Ties for first on Jeopardy
by jeffcoat on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @12:40PM
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I noticed that, too; but a little later in the game, Trebek declared "leg" (instead of "he was missing a leg") wrong without hesitation.
So it's definitely being held to some standard.
Re:Day 1: IBM Watson Ties for first on Jeopardy
by Benjo on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @01:01PM
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Actually, according to arstechnica, that lack of hesitation was before the segment was reshot.
A human had answered "missing a hand," which created context that means "What is a leg" could be interpreted as "he was missing a leg". Initially Alex did give him credit, before realizing that Wattson couldn't have been using that context.
http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2011/02/ibms-watson-tied-f...
Re:Day 1: IBM Watson Ties for first on Jeopardy
by shalmanese on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @05:49PM
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OK, so I have a question about this, how was it legitimate for Brad to answer at this point? Brad would have seen Alex initially credit Watson with the right answer and then reverse the judgement, rendering the answer incorrect. Brad would have been able to infer the correct answer at this point.
Re:Day 1: IBM Watson Ties for first on Jeopardy
by alanfalcon on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @08:13PM
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In fact, Brad didn't answer the question... I was wondering about that since the answer was obvious just from Ken's guess and Watson's response.
Re:Day 1: IBM Watson Ties for first on Jeopardy
by jeffcoat on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @02:14PM
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Very interesting; thanks for the clarification. I was fooled.
Re:Day 1: IBM Watson Ties for first on Jeopardy
by ptomato on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @01:05PM
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Apparently he actually initially declared that as correct before realizing that Watson didn't have the context to be going off of Ken's incorrect answer. Hurrah for editing.
Re:Day 1: IBM Watson Ties for first on Jeopardy
by madcaptenor on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @11:00PM
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This sort of overanswering seems to be usually accepted, as long as the correct answer is contained in the wrong one.
Jeopardy does tend to be a little more forgiving of contestants during the first round – such as giving them a reminder to phrase-as-a-question, and letting them correct an initially wrong or incomplete utterance, if done almost instantly. Still, I'm not sure if such a interpretive error by a person would have been overlooked.