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Originally Posted by Solecismic
This makes very little sense. More than half of your success on Jeopardy is related to how quickly you can hit the button after the question has been read (in the studio, there's a light surrounding the game board signaling the opening). A computer would presumably be able to react much more quickly to the signal and would buzz in every time.
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That seemed to be the case, although Watson seemed to struggle mightily on the more difficult questions. It will be interesting to see how it does in double jeopardy. Ken is easily the slowest on the buzzer.