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Comment author: Miller 14 January 2011 05:40:58AM *  2 points [-]

Audience member video of Watson taking on Jennings and another at Jeopardy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR528D64rpM&feature=player_embedded#!

So if 14 years ago it was chess, and approximately now it is Jeopardy, what's an example from the class of challenging high profile targets 14 years from now? Turing Test?

Comment author: [deleted] 16 January 2011 05:09:41PM 2 points [-]

Here's a better quality video. And this is another video in which the people at IBM talk about developing Watson and why they chose to do Jeopardy.

Comment author: Miller 16 January 2011 08:19:53PM *  1 point [-]

Watson apparently refines it's notion of the kinds of answers that are expected under a given category as it accumulates previous answers. The human contestants could exploit this by starting with the higher dollar questions. I'll be curious to see if they do.

There's a detailed chart of the performance over time of the system here.