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I don’t know what exactly makes Watson’s performance unimpressive. Being able to answer 84% of all questions correctly is impressive, reaction times or not.
by ugh 16y ago
I don’t know what exactly makes Watson’s performance unimpressive. Being able to answer 84% of all questions correctly is impressive, reaction times or not.
- baddox 16y agoAs I've said many times, Watson being able to come up with correct responses that often is impressive. Watson winning Jeopardy! is what's not impressive.
- ugh 16y agoThat seems to be a contradiction. Being able to answer 84% of the questions seems to be about champion level.
- baddox 16y agoIt might be close to champion level, but I strongly suspect that it's not as good as Watson's two human contestants.
- ugh 16y agoI would be interesting to know how the human contestants would play on their own. We only see them in competitive matches, so we don’t really know how many of the questions they would and could answer. (I heard that contestants tend to push their buzzer as soon as they hear one of their competitors pushing the buzzer regardless of whether they know the answer, so you can’t even know from buzzer presses alone whether the would answer if there were no competitors.) 84% is, to my mind, very high. I’m skeptical of claims that even the best humans are better than that.