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Re:Watson crushes the competition in second round of 'Jeopardy' by thestoicattack on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @01:16AM (#2225320)
> the IBM team could be pretty well assured of success once they got Watson performing well enough.

That shouldn't minimize the accomplishment of actually performing well enough. If Watson were fast on the buzzer but couldn't answer accurately, he's be pretty far in the red about now.

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Re:Watson crushes the competition in second round of 'Jeopardy' by zach on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @02:11AM (#2225456)
Sure, but I believe the average Jeopardy contestant could probably win this match handily if they had Watson buzzing in for them.

Therefore they've made a machine that plays Jeopardy about as well as an average Jeopardy contestant.

That's still an impressive feat but not quite one I would have thought was out of reach five years ago.

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