Day 1: IBM Watson Ties for first on Jeopardy

Re:Day 1: IBM Watson Ties for first on Jeopardy by Benjo on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @01:01PM (#2222355)

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...

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Re:Day 1: IBM Watson Ties for first on Jeopardy by shalmanese on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @05:49PM (#2223735)

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.

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Re:Day 1: IBM Watson Ties for first on Jeopardy by alanfalcon on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @08:13PM (#2224370)

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.

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Re:Day 1: IBM Watson Ties for first on Jeopardy by jeffcoat on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @02:14PM (#2222727)

Very interesting; thanks for the clarification. I was fooled.

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