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Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Jeapordy Clicker
Supposedly, the computer is facing the same physical constraint as the humans, in that he has to mechanically click the clicker.
It seems to me that the humans are clicking the clicker like crazy half way through the question, and… I don’t know what the computer does. Does he only have access to Alex Trebek’s voice? Is the question fed to him electronically as well (to at least simulate the human eye/brain)? And, if the humans are clicking at 10 clicks per second, is the computer allowed to click at say 100 clicks per second?
I only saw the tail end plus Final Jeapordy yesterday. Very interesting that the computer was not able to deduce what “U.S. Cities” meant. Presumably, USA or United States would have made it clear. By betting only 697$, it was clear that it didn’t know what it meant. That it answered Toronto cinched it.
If we can blast beauty pagent contestants for their poor geography skills, I think we can do the same to the computer:
2) Category titles cannot be trusted. I blogged about this earlier, in a post How Watson Thinks. It has learned through exhaustive statistical analysis that many clues do not jibe with categories. A category about US novelists, for example, can ask about J.D. Salinger’s masterpiece. Catcher in the Rye is a novel, not a novelist! These things happen time and again, and Watson notices. So it pays scant attention to the categories.
We talked about this when we talked about computers taking over umpires. When umpires blow it, the blow it on the periphery. When a computer blows it, it’s a spectacular blow up.
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