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Watch IBM's Watson On Jeopardy Tonight

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the yeah-i-think-i'll-pass dept.

JohnMurtari notes that the media hype machines are massively promoting tonight's battle between Jeopardy champions and a super computer. Yes it's a PR stunt. But I imagine the actual research probably had a lot of interesting problems to address. Anyway, you can learn about IBM Watson if you're interested. I'm sure the most amusing bits will be on YouTube about 30 seconds after air time.

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  1. Re:Not sure why people are knocking it by maxume · · Score: 5, Informative

    It does not use speech recognition, it receives the 'answers' as text.

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  2. NOVA's documentary by antdude · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://video.pbs.org/video/1786674622/ for Americans. :)

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  3. Re:Publicity fumble: Why not do it live? by Lev13than · · Score: 4, Informative

    The show that will air tonight has been filmed weeks ago, for no good reason that I can think of.

    Jeopardy is always filmed in advance. There's no conspiracy - it's much cheaper to film a daily game show in batches. Editing/preparing the episodes also takes a bit of time, hence the delay

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  4. Re:Yes, Thank Turing We're Not the Media Hype Mach by Ambvai · · Score: 3, Informative

    "This man was the son of a president, a president himself, and invaded the same country as his father."

    I'm feeling lucky...!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush