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dandelany
on Feb 15, 2011
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IBM's Watson starts on Jeopardy Tonight
<spoiler>This happened on the first episode tonight... Ken Jennings guessed "1920s" and Watson guessed the same thing</spoiler>
Either they ended up not implementing this, or Watson didn't hear him correctly :)
brown9-2
on Feb 15, 2011
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The problem could have been that Jennings said "the twenties" which a computer may not have recognized as the same thing as "the nineteen twenties"
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Either they ended up not implementing this, or Watson didn't hear him correctly :)