Watson Jeopardy Challenge

It's going to change how we interface with information. People are going to ask how did it do that? How did it accomplish this taskage before we thought only humans could ever hope to do? David Hume held this view that sense and experience are the sole foundation of knowledge. Watson? What is imperialism? Watson is a question answering system. A question can be posed in natural language and having read a whole bunch of information, data, documents, come up with a precise answer to that question. It's an information seeking tool that's capable of understanding your question to make sure that you get what you want and then delivers that content through a naturally flowing dialogue. Do you have one of those? I don't have one of those, right? It's a human standing there with the carbon and water versus the computer with all of its silicon and its main memory and its disk. After Germany invaded the Netherlands, this queen, her family and cabinet, sleds a London. Maria, who is Beatrix? No. Watson? Who is Will Amina? That is correct. Humans communicate very fluently in natural language. And that's where computers struggle dramatically. And that's where we want to make them better. This US president negotiated the Treaty of Portsmouth ending the Russo Japanese war. Watson? Who is the Adorozov? Good for $800. In chapter questions are tricky. They have puns in them, they have a little jokes in them. A famous red, cropped clown or just any incompetent fool. Watson? Who is Bozo? Nice. Good job, Watson. I think we've gone from impressed to blown away. This is really remarkable performance. And we know if no computer system can come anywhere close to doing this question answering task. Watson is the confirmed champion for this game. But the reality is that being able to win a game at jeopardy doesn't mean you've completely Conquer the language understanding task. Forf from it. In REMs, it's the end of the world as we know it. Two of the men with the initials LB. Watson? What is I feel fine? The worst thing is if Watson just crashes in the middle of the game, that's what you don't want. But then the second worst thing is if you have some horrible blood where Watson starts getting everything wrong. What are trousers? No. What is harness racing? No. What is taxi to the dark side? No. What is artificial sweetener? I'm on now. No. What is milk? No. Very nice. You're both beat them. Good for you. Humans. This is triage. This is a million things to consider here. This is a wonderful thing. We're going to run out of time. We're going to run out of time. Our responsibility to the scientific community is to push this technology as hard as we possibly Again. Because when we get out there in public, what we're demonstrating is, what is the state of the art? What can we really do? It's limitless. The number of things you could potentially apply this to. Watson, you have control. But I don't know. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it.