http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/02/14/jeopardy.ibm.watson/index.html
this is quite an interesting read. question becomes are computers just as smart as we are? I'm quite surprised that the computer doesn't have a massive lead On 2/15/11 10:55 PM, David Mathog wrote: > Jim Lux pointed out in an earlier post the reaction time element on > buzzing in from the (invisible to the audience) "go" light. I only > watched about 10 minutes of this, but my impression was that the machine > did have a reaction time advantage. Alex T. was a little vague on how > the machine was fed the question and if he explained what its equivalent > of the "go" light is I missed it. It could be decisive - sending the > entire question to the machine at the instant it became visible to the > humans would give the machine an advantage, since it could digest the > message before the contestants eyes could even track across the first > line of text, let alone until they heard the entire question. In any > case, for the part I watched the machine was beating the humans to the > buzzer pretty consistently. It was cute, but a little silly, that the > machine had to push the button with a mechanical plunger. Unless they > built a typical human reaction delay into that mechanism one would > expect the plunger to be much faster than a thumb. > > In terms of score/watt the humans had the machine beat by a mile :-). > > David Mathog > mat...@caltech.edu > Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
