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wedrifid comments on IBM's "Watson" program to compete against "Jeopardy" champions tonight - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: wedrifid 15 February 2011 03:33:40AM 1 point [-]

Silly aside: is anyone else annoyed by how "Jeopardy" pretends to invert the traditional question-answer format, while what it does is simply moving the "what is" from the former to the latter, even if the result makes no sense? I suppose to US people this is a rather old complaint, but I learnt about the show today and I'm rather bugged by this feature.

My only exposure to the "Jeopardy" show was indirectly via, I believe, "The Nanny". Maxwell's resentful muttering of "Andrew Lloyd Webber" got a negative response. Maxwell was looking hopeful until Fran told him the correct answer was "WHO IS Andrew Lloyd Webber?" From this I deduced that a) Jeopardy is lame and makes you answer with questions and b) Maxwell is funny. :P