{"id":963,"date":"2011-01-13T17:23:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T01:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/?p=963"},"modified":"2011-01-13T17:23:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T01:23:56","slug":"ibms-watson-defeats-jeopardy-champs-in-trial-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/2011\/01\/ibms-watson-defeats-jeopardy-champs-in-trial-round\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM&#8217;s Watson Defeats Jeopardy champs in trial round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we mentioned in an earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/2010\/12\/ibms-watson-to-compete-on-jeopardy-with-jennings-with-rutter\">Blog<\/a>, the US television show Jeopardy! has agreed to host a showdown between a new question-answering computer system developed by IBM and two former Jeopardy! champions.  The new system, named &#8220;Watson&#8221; by IBM, accepts input in the form of natural English inquiries, and then responds with its best determination of the answer.  For the Jeopardy! contest, of course, the roles of &#8220;question&#8221; and &#8220;answer&#8221; are reversed.  <\/p>\n<p>In a practice round conducted on 13 Jan 2011 at IBM&#8217;s Yorktown Heights Research Center, Watson defeated its human challengers (former Jeopardy! champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter).  The final winnings were: Watson $4400, Jennings $3400, Rutter $1200.<\/p>\n<p>As an example of the questions in the test round, the host read the following clue (in the category &#8220;Chicks Dig It&#8221;): &#8220;Kathleen Kenyon&#8217;s excavation of this city mentioned in Joshua shows that the walls had been repaired 17 times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>IBM&#8217;s Watson immediately answered &#8220;What is Jericho?&#8221; in a simulated male voice.  Watson went on to answer the next four clues in this category before the humans recovered and answered one.<\/p>\n<p>The real Jeopardy! challenge will be televised on Feb. 14, 15, 16.  Some additional details are available at <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704307404576080333201294262.html\"><i>Wall Street Journal<\/i> article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we mentioned in an earlier Blog, the US television show Jeopardy! has agreed to host a showdown between a new question-answering computer system developed by IBM and two former Jeopardy! champions. The new system, named &#8220;Watson&#8221; by IBM, accepts input in the form of natural English inquiries, and then responds with its best determination of the answer. For the Jeopardy! contest, of course, the roles of &#8220;question&#8221; and &#8220;answer&#8221; are reversed. <\/p>\n<p>In a practice round conducted on 13 Jan 2011 at IBM&#8217;s Yorktown Heights Research Center, Watson defeated its human challengers (former Jeopardy! champions Ken Jennings and Brad <\/p>\n<p>Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/2011\/01\/ibms-watson-defeats-jeopardy-champs-in-trial-round\/\">IBM&#8217;s Watson Defeats Jeopardy champs in trial round<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":968,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}