IBM Watson dominates Jeopardy contest day 2

Supercomputer IBM Watson blew away the competition on Tuesday evening during his indictment showdown with former game show samples of Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. The computer was able to respond 13 clues of danger first 15 practically uncontested, with a single response going to Jennings and another problem that all three competitors missed. Watson ended transmission with $ 35,734, followed by Rutter in $ 10,400 $ 4800 and Jennings. Competitors will square off again on Wednesday night for a final battle.

Watson screams back Next

There seemed to be that some hope that Rutter and Jennings would be able to compete effectively against Watson during the second part of the risk of round Monday. Watson has begun to stumble upon the most advanced and wordplay ended Monday, tied with $ 5000 each Rutter.

But Watson and his 13.64 terabytes of memory got the job done quickly during the broadcast of Tuesday and ruthless, too. Unlike Monday's show, Watson played aggressively, pointing to big money problems especially round of double criminality. Value of the clue of the highest, the harder the wordplay tends to be.

The first 15 clues were indicative of how the rest of the game, went with Watson that dominates the rest of the game.

Watson takes a guess?

Watson has surprised the audience during the second Daily Double clue when the computer was not sure of the answer but risky guess anyway. Watson is not supposed to answer unless its level of certainty passes a threshold (based on a percentage) dubbed "Watson" buzz. "

The threshold is not a fixed and floating value depending on level of symptom distress. Watson was 32% in certain of the correct answer, but that was well below the threshold of buzz that clue. Thus faced with the prospect of losing money if it has not responded (just the contestant who collects the Daily Double clue may respond), the computer went with his best guess was correct.

The indication of danger Watson guessed on was, "the old lion of Nimrud ' gone missing from the National Museum of the city in 2003 (along with a lot of other things)". The answer was "what is Baghdad?"

Back to Google Maps for Watson

Watson shot again in danger of ending where the computer has wagered only $ 947. All three contestants were asked to identify a city with two airports: one named after a hero of World War II and another after a battle of World War II. The correct answer was Chicago, and both human competitors responded correctly. Watson, on the other hand, he replied "Toronto" and it was highly uncertain of its response. It seems that somehow the computer failed to realize that the category, the city of the United States, would help to narrow his choices. You can check out IBM'S take on what went wrong on the blog of a smarter planet.

Whatever the shortcomings of Watson's IBM super computer was dominant against human opponents. Now, it all boils down to the transmission of Wednesday evening when Jennings and Rutter attempts to battle and overcome Commander again lead Watson.

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