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I wonder if the Jeopardy appearances helped Watson (by getting the name out) or hindered it (by making people think it's just a parlor trick). Either way, this
by gkoberger 12y ago
I wonder if the Jeopardy appearances helped Watson (by getting the name out) or hindered it (by making people think it's just a parlor trick). Either way, this is seriously fascinating: I'm excited to see what other applications it has.
- duaneb 12y agoPeople aren't stupid, and if it was a parlour trick it was an exceptionally well-executed on. People, even those who don't have a grasp on the computational complexity of language and reasoning, seem legitimately impressed by the performance.
- sgt101 12y agoYes, and it was a real research collaboration - a brilliant insight - to see that the Jeopardy language was constrained and tractable to analysis that would allow a mapping to a solver. I have not been involved in these efforts or the community closely enough to say, but I think that things like controlled english http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempto_Controlled_English http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempto_Controlled_English and http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~soar/sitemaker/docs/pubs/Interactive_task_learning_for_simple_games.pdf http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~soar/sitemaker/docs/pubs/Interact... may have been inspired by the success of Watson in Jeopardy. On the other hand I was running a question answering question when Watson started, and the PI said to me "oh yeah, but that's cheating..." And on the third hand we stopped and closed that project pretty well six months later. So - there's a lot to think about!