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<blockquote data-quote="Ryan Lantzy" data-source="post: 19492" data-attributes="member: 7">Re: Watson&nbsp;It&#039;s actually a disadvantage.&nbsp; Human contestants can read *and* hear the question.&nbsp; Watson can only &quot;read&quot; the question.&nbsp; They can also garner info from Alex&#039;s inflection on &quot;clue&quot; words and how he reads the question.&nbsp; Additionally, Watson can&#039;t hear when another contestant says a wrong answer and use that info to hone his choice.&nbsp; It actually cost him a question in the first round of the first game they played.&nbsp; For one question in a category about decades, Ken answered &quot;what are the 20&#039;s?&quot; which was wrong and Watson buzzed in next with &quot;what were the 1920&#039;s?&quot;&nbsp; The voice to text part is pretty trivial now-a-days, something nearly any phone can do.&nbsp; It just ads a layer of complexity that would be totally unnecessary to prove what IBM&#039;s researchers sought out to do.&nbsp; Watson is playing the game blind and deaf, and basically all he can read is braille and he still kicked their asses.&nbsp; This is a feat like no other recorded in history, I promise you that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ryan Lantzy, post: 19492, member: 7"] Re: Watson It's actually a disadvantage. Human contestants can read *and* hear the question. Watson can only "read" the question. They can also garner info from Alex's inflection on "clue" words and how he reads the question. Additionally, Watson can't hear when another contestant says a wrong answer and use that info to hone his choice. It actually cost him a question in the first round of the first game they played. For one question in a category about decades, Ken answered "what are the 20's?" which was wrong and Watson buzzed in next with "what were the 1920's?" The voice to text part is pretty trivial now-a-days, something nearly any phone can do. It just ads a layer of complexity that would be totally unnecessary to prove what IBM's researchers sought out to do. Watson is playing the game blind and deaf, and basically all he can read is braille and he still kicked their asses. This is a feat like no other recorded in history, I promise you that. [/QUOTE]

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