<p>Ooooooo! Good start.</p>
<p>Agree! Looking forward to tomorrow.</p>
<p>PBS Newshour just did an interesting piece on it.</p>
<p>I loved it…but I also love watching Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter…two very bright and interesting guys. I’m looking forward to watching them with Watson again tomorrow!!</p>
<p>I was looking forward to the interview section with Watson. Guess he’s not much of a talker. 
Ken was starting to look a bit frustrated about not being able to buzz in, but Brad seemed to be getting the hang of it. I think it’s going to be more of a buzzer battle than anything else.</p>
<p>I loved it when Ken gave a wrong response and then Watson said the exact same thing.</p>
<p>It was interesting, but at times it seemed like a 30 minute infomercial for IBM.</p>
<p>I liked Watson’s voice–much nicer than some of those other simulated voices.</p>
<p>I missed the tail end of the show. Who won? I thought it was very interesting that Watson was winning by a long shot in the beginning, but that started to change. (Then I had to leave.) The computers looked like the ones I remember from the time before PCs ever existed. So we’ll see more tomorrow night? Cool!</p>
<p>No one has won yet. The rest of today’s game will be on tomorrow (they only did the first round today), and then they’ll do a full game as usual on Wednesday. Much of today was taken up with filler about the wonders of Watson. </p>
<p>Ken’s strategy is very clear - try to buzz in first on every question, then figure out the answer if he’s fast enough.</p>
<p>I thought that Ken and Brad seemed to do better after the first break. I was a little aggravated that there seemed to be so little actual Jeopardy played. There was one particular category, maybe the decades, which seemed to cause problems for Watson.</p>
<p>Yes, I thought it was odd that Watson couldn’t do the decades since it was the only category I beat everybody in! Anyway good beginning at first I thought Watson was going to blow the humans away and that wouldn’t have been much fun.</p>
<p>Wow I’m impressed, Watson has basically plowed through his opposition after day one!</p>
<p>I found it hilarious when he repeated a wrong answer in the Decades questions, and Alex was like “No. And um…Ken JUST said that, Watson.”</p>
<p>Watson was really good at the music lyrics… lol</p>
<p>does anyone know how Watson knows when to buzz in? You can’t buzz in before Trebek finishes asking the questions, right? Then you get locked out for a couple seconds? But Watson can’t hear, so how does it know when to buzz in?</p>
<p>Watson receives the clues electronically as a text file at the same moment the clues are revealed to Ken and Brad. As soon as Alex finishes reading the clue, lights on either side of the game board (not visible to the TV audience) are turned on and the buzzers are activated. Watson is hard-wired into the game board; when the lights come on, Watson is triggered by an electrical impulse. </p>
<p>The Jeopardy! Forum ([Monday</a>, February 14, 2011 Game Recap & Discussion (SPOILERS) - Sony Pictures](<a href=“http://boards.sonypictures.com/boards/showthread.php?t=49377]Monday”>http://boards.sonypictures.com/boards/showthread.php?t=49377)) is having fun discussing today’s show.</p>
<p>I think the game would be fair if Watson used voice recognition software. Receiving the clues electronically seems like an unfair advantage to me. (my husband agrees with me).</p>
<p>I thought this was very interesting. At first it looked like Watson would blow these guys out, but they seemed to get moving after a bit. I am looking forward to Wednesday with a full show in the normal format. It was surprising how the decades messed up Watson. I thought that was the easiest category. It makes you wonder why the word association algorithms did not work so well on that one.</p>
<p>What would Watson do with his prize money?</p>
<p>Here’s an essay in today’s NYTimes science section about Watson vs. Humans, subtitled ‘Smarter than you Think’.
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<p>Watson DID NOT “plough through” his human opponents. He started off strong, but the terrans got the hang of it and established a rhythym (beating Waston to the buzzer) in the latter half of the show. Yes, the fellow from Seattle seemed a bit stressed and initially flummoxed. Eagerly awaiting tonight’s part II. By the way, it’s time for Alex to gracefully retire. His metaphors and segways are just God awful!</p>
<p>I just think Watson got the easier questions faster. “He” seemed to begin a “slight” downturn as soon as the second half (the harder ones!) of the questions came into play. This is a fun exercise though! And yes…a nice commercial for IBM.</p>
<p>I agree it was more IBM commercial than I would have liked.</p>
<p>On the question where Watson repeated the wrong answer, Ken had said “what were the 20s” and Watson said “what are the 1920s” In the Nova show they talked about how he had problems with dates abbreviated to two digits, in that show his answer was off by a century.</p>
<p>Watson does get informed of other people’s answers right and wrong which can feed into his learning.</p>
<p>I loved watching the bottom with his top three guesses and confidence levels. I want to know more about how he picks the categories and wagers for daily doubles. And I am disappointed he was not interviewed :)</p>