I heard that Watson had a gaffe in which he stated a "question" for an "answer" that a competitor already had given wrong. So they didn't build Watson to "hear" answers from competitors, and find out if those answers were wrong or not?
Watson's most obvious gaffe was its inability to recognize when an answer had already been given. One of two of the all-time Jeopardy! champions pitted against the super-machine, Ken Jennings, answered a question incorrectly with, "What is 1920s." Watson repeated the same answer. Steve Camepa, IBM's general manager of global media and the entertainment industry explained that "Watson only takes his input from the question board so the fact that somebody else gave the same answer doesn't factor into what Watson says. He can't hear what the other players are saying, but maybe that's a feature we can add in the future."
Oh, yeah; I think you're right (except that it's over three days, not two).And I thought it was going to be 2 full games not one game stretched over 2 days.
Yep; I think Ken said "the 20's" and then Watson said "1920s." Alex said, "No...Ken just said that." hahaNo, I meant that I read that a contestant answered a question incorrectly, then Watson "buzzed in", and gave the same incorrect answer.
Here's the story I was reading which I found interesting. I guess they didn't think to include some kind of voice recognition of contestant answers to make sure Watson wouldn't give the same one?
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2380351,00.asp
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