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"There was no more clear a demonstration of AI’s capability than when IBM had its Watson supercomputer defeat all the human champions in the game show Jeopardy.
by skywhopper 6y ago
"There was no more clear a demonstration of AI’s capability than when IBM had its Watson supercomputer defeat all the human champions in the game show Jeopardy."
The only thing that event proved was that a computer can press a button faster than a human can. The system was getting a digital signal when the signaling devices were unlocked, so unless Watson was unsure of the correct response, it could _always_ beat the humans to the punch. It also had the advantage of parsing the text version of the answers, rather than the audio of Alex speaking in real time, meaning it had a head start to begin with. Unlike the similar Chess and Go challenges, the Jeopardy event was incredibly unfair to the humans involved.
- bsaul 6y agoI haven't watched the whole game, but watson jeopardy was to me the most amazing things i've witnessed in AI, and has only been superseded by GPT-3. And this wasn't at all due to its ability to answer fast, but rather to answer correctly to questions that required not only raw knowledge, but beeing able to understand pun, double-meaning, references, etc... This seems to me much more impressive than playing go or chess..
- thrower123 6y agoThat's pretty much the only success Watson has to point at. The cognitive services stuff that they sell is utterly commonplace crap.