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i wish watson had to do speech/text recognition of the answers. it would slow down watson's response and put it on par with the human contestants who don't hav
by there 16y ago
i wish watson had to do speech/text recognition of the answers. it would slow down watson's response and put it on par with the human contestants who don't have the answers hard-wired directly into their brains and still have to spend time reading or listening to alex.
- MichaelGG 16y agoI doubt that OCR on the nicely formatted question screen would slow it down appreciably.
- flatline 16y agoI suspect they could have done this, the technology certainly exists to read the screens and parse text from an image. They could also have tried to recognize when a human gives a wrong answer, like with the 20's question, and presumably the same logic used to play Jeopardy could interpret that statement and not give the same answer again. Watson took four years to develop and is the first of its kind. I suspect that something fancier never would have been finished, and too many features would have been a distraction from what IBM has actually accomplished.
- doty 16y agoNo, it wouldn't. At the highest levels of play, all players know most answers, and are prepared to ring in as soon as the capability to ring in is given to them. In other words, at this level of play, all humans are racing for the buzzer. The fact that Watson may know the answer before the contestants are allowed to ring in is not an actual advantage for Watson. (The mechanical button-pushing device is.)