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  • SPTO
    binging
    • Feb 2003
    • 68046
    #76
    Re: Jeopardy: The IBM Challenge

    Originally posted by Redemption
    thats the thing... they do do that and they still can't buzz in before watson!

    Jennings said in interviews back in 04 when he made his historic run, that he'd buzz in asap on any question he remotely recognized (a category he knew well, a key word he recognized from the question, etc) and then figure out the answer after
    In that case..........WHOA.

    I guess it's a lost cause for these guys then.
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      • Beantown
        #DoYourJob
        • Feb 2005
        • 31523
        #77
        Re: Jeopardy: The IBM Challenge

        Originally posted by SPTO
        I'm surprised that they don't just buzz in as soon as they can and then come up with the answer at that point in time rather than waiting, thinking THEN answering. At least that's what i'd try to do.
        Jennings actually did that a few times in the first day, even going as far as saying, after buzzing in one time right away, "Don't know if I know this one..."

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          • SmashMan
            All Star
            • Dec 2004
            • 9718
            #78
            Re: Jeopardy: The IBM Challenge

            Originally posted by Dirty Turtles
            Can't wait to watch it tomorrow. Also I'm glad our syndication airs at 7, so just before you guys start watching it, I'll have known what happens! HAHA
            Airs at 3:30 here in Chicago.

            I missed the first day, but caught yesterday...Watson is a beast. Maybe if they programmed a variable delay so he wasn't buzzing in immediately Jennings and Rutter would have a shot. The tech is just amazing to watch though.

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              • slickdtc
                Grayscale
                • Aug 2004
                • 17125
                #79
                Re: Jeopardy: The IBM Challenge

                It's interesting, but it does seem a bit off because Watson is so fast to answer. It's not like we didn't know that computers could process more information quicker then we can. I think it's funny that it answers seemingly simple questions wrong, too. For how advanced it is, to have it answer Toronto to a US Cities question, it's a bit funny. And I'm glad it's still got a ways to go before taking over the world.
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                  • CMH
                    Making you famous
                    • Oct 2002
                    • 26203
                    #80
                    Re: Jeopardy: The IBM Challenge

                    Ken Jennings Final Jeopardy answer on the third day was great. GIGGAS agrees.

                    The only fall back I see to the logic in finding as many Daily Doubles as quickly as possible is that the effectiveness of a DD is based on the dollar amount a player already yields.

                    It's best to find them later than earlier.
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                      • Burns11
                        Greatness Has Arrived
                        • Mar 2007
                        • 7406
                        #81
                        Re: Jeopardy: The IBM Challenge

                        It's best to find them period, wait and it can bite you in the *** if your competitors nab them. No doubt that the team at IBM did a study to find what waiting to find daily doubles did to the outcome of a game.

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                          • SPTO
                            binging
                            • Feb 2003
                            • 68046
                            #82
                            Re: Jeopardy: The IBM Challenge

                            I'm glad the 2nd game was a lot more competitive it seemed Jennings was catching on and Watson's biggest issues are clues that have to do with entertainment type stuff.
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                              • CMH
                                Making you famous
                                • Oct 2002
                                • 26203
                                #83
                                Re: Jeopardy: The IBM Challenge

                                Originally posted by Burns11
                                It's best to find them period, wait and it can bite you in the *** if your competitors nab them. No doubt that the team at IBM did a study to find what waiting to find daily doubles did to the outcome of a game.
                                I thought the same thing as well. But, then I figured if you're controlling the board, you shouldn't have to worry.

                                But you're right. It could bite you in the *** if you wait too long.
                                "It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace

                                "You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob Neyer

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