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Historical Event - IBM Computer "Watson" plays Jeopardy
« on: February 15, 2011, 08:09:06 pm »
I saw this live on television and thought this was such a historical event. This was never done before, but the two top Jeopardy players, one who won 74 games in a ROW, the other who won over 3.2 million in winnings, play against IBM's computer, Watson. This is just like the event in which a computer, Deep Blue, beat the chess grand champion Kasparov in a game of chess. Except, this is a lot more complicated, chess is logical to program, but to program a computer that plays Jeopardy, which involves weird questions, human jokes, puns, etc, is just amazing.

Here are some videos I found on the topic including the full episode itself:





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Re: Historical Event - IBM Computer "Watson" plays Jeopardy
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2011, 08:36:04 pm »
Deep Blue, the computer that famously beat Kasparov at chess, used very computationally intensive brute force methods to win that game. Watson is far more advanced as is much closer to beating humans using analytics, not exhaustive searches.
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Re: Historical Event - IBM Computer "Watson" plays Jeopardy
« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2011, 08:39:31 pm »
This is impressive, each time, IBM gets closer and closer to emulating an human brain with a computer, which, I think, is the goal, ultimately.
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Re: Historical Event - IBM Computer "Watson" plays Jeopardy
« Reply #3 on: February 15, 2011, 09:07:35 pm »
They must be keeping "Holmes" in reserve for when they manage to successfully emulate a Vulcan...
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Re: Historical Event - IBM Computer "Watson" plays Jeopardy
« Reply #4 on: February 15, 2011, 09:12:29 pm »
Quote from: Qwerty.55 on February 15, 2011, 08:36:04 pm
Deep Blue, the computer that famously beat Kasparov at chess, used very computationally intensive brute force methods to win that game.

Deep Blue was an update on IBM's Deep Thought...
* Deep Thought sighs
Pretty obvious, considering I didn't win the Game.

But Watson is amazing. I still haven't had a chance to watch it, though. Did it win last knight?
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Re: Historical Event - IBM Computer "Watson" plays Jeopardy
« Reply #5 on: February 15, 2011, 09:51:24 pm »
Quote from: Deep Thought on February 15, 2011, 09:12:29 pm
But Watson is amazing. I still haven't had a chance to watch it, though. Did it win last knight?
I don't wanna give any spoilers but yeah, literally two hours ago, day two of the event occurred and Watson completely devastated the former Jeopardy champions, literally. I think the end result for day 2 was Watson at $35,647 while Ken Jennings (74 wins in a row) was at $400 and Brad Rutter ($3.2 million, most made from the game) was at $4200.

It's just shocking to see it in action, day 3 has yet to come by, so be sure to watch it tomorrow:
ABC channel (channel 7 here) at 7:30 PM
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Re: Historical Event - IBM Computer "Watson" plays Jeopardy
« Reply #6 on: February 15, 2011, 10:41:23 pm »
I watched the first day and I heard he decimated today. I thought Ken was up more than $400. More like $10000, but I didnt see it so I cant so for sure. Either way they were both being killed by Watson.
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Re: Historical Event - IBM Computer "Watson" plays Jeopardy
« Reply #7 on: February 15, 2011, 11:05:13 pm »
Just saw it. That was a pretty lopsided win O.o He still lost the final question, though. Chicago ;D

EDIT: Nobody left who hasn't seen it, right? Don't want to spoil anything.

EDIT2: Now imagine Watson as a spambot...
* Deep Thought runs
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Re: Historical Event - IBM Computer "Watson" plays Jeopardy
« Reply #8 on: February 16, 2011, 12:41:41 am »
Darn this is awesome. I would sure hate playing Starcraft vs such computer. O.O
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Re: Historical Event - IBM Computer "Watson" plays Jeopardy
« Reply #9 on: February 16, 2011, 12:49:17 am »
It's very ironic that my roommate picked tonight to watch Eagle Eye...
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Re: Historical Event - IBM Computer "Watson" plays Jeopardy
« Reply #10 on: February 16, 2011, 02:19:13 am »
Lol, never heard of it over here in Quebec.

Also it would be funny if at one point the computer got asked a question about iraq/afghanistan war or any other war, then screwed up and answered "Somebody set up us the bomb." It would be even more funny (well, not really funny to make fun of this because of the people that died, but funny in the internet reference sense) if the question was about 9/11
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Re: Historical Event - IBM Computer "Watson" plays Jeopardy
« Reply #11 on: February 16, 2011, 02:26:50 am »
I would have to say that jeopardy is my favorite game show. especially now that they have computer contestants
btw did anyone have sound/video issues with their broadcasting. I'm in the Pacific timezone.
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Re: Historical Event - IBM Computer "Watson" plays Jeopardy
« Reply #12 on: February 16, 2011, 02:37:06 am »
I personally am not really into such show anymore, but again I don't even watch TV anymore. I remember before my mom pulled her Cable TV plan for financial issues in 1993 I watched Jeopardy sometimes, trying to understand what they say (we did not have it in French :(), and I kinda enjoyed it. It's weird to see that it didn't change that much over the time.
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Re: Historical Event - IBM Computer "Watson" plays Jeopardy
« Reply #13 on: February 16, 2011, 09:25:14 am »
Ask him what the scouter says :P

But seriously, imagine what we could do with a commercial Watson in the future.
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Re: Historical Event - IBM Computer "Watson" plays Jeopardy
« Reply #14 on: February 16, 2011, 01:59:58 pm »
Found some uploads for day 2!

Part 1
(Feel free to skip to 4:25, the first part is just an IBM plug)





Part 2
(Shorter IBM plug this time, only until 2:40)

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