So today, we learned that machines can push buttons faster than people
I'm not gonna lie... it was pretty entertaining watching Jennings squirm every time Watson beat him to the buzzer.
Also, there wasn't any mention of Watson having adaptive artificial intelligence but I would guess it's safe to say IBM was smart enough to include something like that. That in itself would be crazy hard to implement given the magnitude of what it's already doing... but not impossible. Maybe there are a few corrective algorithms in there somewhere.
It doesn't do any training during the game, except that it uses the correct answers already seen in a category to give weight to a specific interpretation of the category title.
I'm not gonna lie... it was pretty entertaining watching Jennings squirm every time Watson beat him to the buzzer.
Also, there wasn't any mention of Watson having adaptive artificial intelligence but I would guess it's safe to say IBM was smart enough to include something like that. That in itself would be crazy hard to implement given the magnitude of what it's already doing... but not impossible. Maybe there are a few corrective algorithms in there somewhere.