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AFAIK, Watson was just using the light signal to decide when to start buzzing in. Just the light, ignoring when Trebek was going to finish saying something. Pr
by jbri 16y ago
AFAIK, Watson was just using the light signal to decide when to start buzzing in. Just the light, ignoring when Trebek was going to finish saying something.
Presumably a human could consistently beat Watson to the buzzer by predicting when the light would go on.
- gojomo 16y agoNot sure about 'consistently', though trying to predict the light seems a reasonable strategy to attempt. There's a lock-out that applies if you buzz too early, and the variance of the 'beats' between Trebek's finish and the light, if that's a human-mediated process, may be far larger than Watson's light-fired reaction time.