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Final Man vs. Machine Round of Jeopardy Unfolds; Watson Dominates
The final round of IBM’s Watson against Ken Jenning and Brad Rutter ended last night with Watson coming out in a strong lead against its two human opponents. Read on to catch a video of the match and see just how quick Watson is on the draw.
Watson tore through many of the answers, the little probability bar at the bottom of the screen denoting it was often 95%+ confident in its answers. Some of the more interesting stumbles were, like in the last matches, based on nuance. By far the biggest “What?” moment of the night, however, was when it answered the Daily Double question of “The New Yorker’s 1959 review of this said in its brevity and clarity, it is ‘unlike most such manuals, a book as well as a tool’”. Watson, inexplicably, answered “Dorothy Parker”. You can win them all, eh? Check out the video below to see Watson in action on its final day.
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- By Jason Fitzpatrick on 02/17/11
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The show was fun to watch. CONGRATULATIONS Watson, but can you do windows?
Major props to Ken Jennings for writing “I for one welcome our computer overlords.”
It wasn’t even closing… WatsonAI destroyed them… but didn’t realize Toronto wasn’t in the United States… or… was it implying something?