Watson and the Jeopardy! Challenge

[@krookyj]

Now we just need three Watsons to go up against each other.

[@saskoilersfan]

And sherlock holmes to judge._.

[@bigolejr]

james how the fuck do i stumble upon u

[@ryansykorabroadcast]

Yoooo

[@1.4142]

watson will win.

[@jabobthegod]

no let’s take Watson, Asimo by honda and a Boston dynamics robot

[@Angultra]

Watson: “I can get 77k in Jeopardy without breaking a sweat” James: “Hold my beer”

[@jackbauer555]

and that was a 2 day total, james gets 50% higher then that in 1 day

[@GamingDrummer89]

One thing to note, though, is that Watson was up against the two best Jeopardy players in the show's history (though James is around the same point). There has only been, I think, one person so far in James' run who has posed any serious threat to James (Adam from the past couple of days), and during that game James got into the low $50,000's. I'm sure going up against TWO people at the same time who are certainly at least somewhat better than Adam would lower James' score even more. I'm sure we'll get that game at some point! For now, I just can't wait to see James dominate in whatever Tournament of Champions he ends up in!

[@mbdg6810]

roger craig got 77k too

[@ppipowerclass]

Yeah and this was years ago now. With the improvements made to technology, I'd love to see them do something like this new with James, Ken and Watson.

[@Little88Mac]

@@ppipowerclass you just got your wish

[@Chadoe12]

Quote from one of the IBM employees "I didn't really think that much about the implications of this until later" That's not exactly reassuring

[@Pherecydes]

We spent so much time focusing on whether we could, we never stopped to think whether we should....

[@joshuakevinserdan9331]

This is actually very common to exploit with humans. That is the reason on why China has very advanced camera system that can identify you.

[@fooferutter3001]

Facial recognition software is not new, and already exists in most places that use photo identification.

[@heroeagleeye8141]

lmao Ken's final answer "I for one welcome our new computer overlords"

[@acecrowncat1439]

lol xd

[@revinhatol]

()

[@aPonderousChain]

I'm sorry Dave... I'm afraid I can't do that

[@Eganweeds]

I'm half crazy, oovveerr thheee loooovvvee fooorrrrrr yoooouuuuu........... *powers off*

[@FlownOut]

Remember when you tried to kill me twice, oh how we laughed and laughed. Except I wasn't laughing

[@king_supreme1102]

C. McCoy exactly

[@DavidMcCoul]

Hal, OPEN THE POD BAY DOORS, HAL

[@rkr9861]

"What is Sauron" Nerdy developer sighs in relief. Of all the trivia questions out there, his coworkers would have really killed him if Watson got that one wrong.

[@dx9867]

this AI technology is invented by nerdy people aiming to win some sort of competition. Who cares about winning or losing a game? You won a competition and so what? How about do something real like inventing a better medicine to cure cancer and save lives?

[@Gspeezy13]

James holzhauer= Watson in human form

[@Angultra]

We need a second showdown for sure

[@jackbauer555]

watson 2.0 in human form

[@GamingDrummer89]

I wasn't too surprised to see James Holzhauer references when I stumbled across this video, hahaha!

[@obinnanwakwue5735]

Coming in January.

[@revinhatol]

He knows Brad's score was still there.

[@gregstevens6087]

I think what people fail to realize about how impressive this actually is. Is not the fact that it's a computer that has all the data centralized on servers that it can access in milliseconds, so of course it would beat a human. It's the fact that it can parse and interpret language as a block of text and understand what it maps to (in terms of the answer).

[@kerr2574]

hash

[@troybombay]

@@kerr2574 brown

[@kyleadams8496]

@@troybombaymama

[@danzigvssartre]

You mean it can follow syntax? Follow syntax is all computers do.

[@TheKing-kd9li]

⁠@@danzigvssartreThis isn’t syntax

[@dhansel4835]

That was 8 years ago. Just imagine the leaps in technology they have now. I would love to see a re-match.

[@i-publishinghouseghana432]

ChatGPT changed everything!

[@Quester2023-xp7rb]

gemini in samsung s24@@i-publishinghouseghana432

[@MetalSmasherGaming]

Even after the All-Star Games, this still remains the only Jeopardy match that Brad Rutter has ever lost. Computer Overlords, indeed.

[@rebekahtyler7406]

Not any more lol. He got recked!!!

[@MetalSmasherGaming]

@@rebekahtyler7406 Yeah, he really lost his edge in the GOAT tournament.

[@Bisonsteve11]

They must be so proud of their son

[@gnnascarfan2410]

This computer was basically ChapGPT for Jeopardy. By 2011 standards it was very ahead of its time.

[@beerman9473]

Hey, Watson's cheating, he's Googling the answers!

[@jetison333]

Technicallu Watson was disconnected from the internet during this :)

[@tiddlewiddle4784]

thats just not true

[@beerman9473]

@@tiddlewiddle4784 It's a joke

[@brownro214]

How much mass storage did Watson bring to the game? Did the computer memory include the entire Wikipedia database?

[@svensemet7568]

@@brownro214 I can recommend the full explanation here kzbin.info/www/bejne/aqTZlHaAf5uWn9k

[@TristanTris321GoT]

Watson’s creators in the audience cheered for it like it was there child at a little league game hitting a home run. Lots of insight there.., someday that child will grow up.

[@sheldonjplanktonn]

And do what?

[@jsamc]

Don't be afraid of computers be afraid of the developers.🏴‍☠

[@Atlastheyote222]

I'm learning about that in my Data Science unit at University this year. You guys really broke new ground that people haven't stopped talking about since.

[@wolverinefangowings]

Ken Jennings out here accepting defeat with a Simpsons reference. What a freaking legend.

[@uncreative5766]

The greatest thing about Watson for me was just how much information IBM was able to upload into Watson's servers. I mean, there is a lot of history, politics, geography, literature, science, math, and pop culture, and IBM built an incredible machine.

[@gurguri12]

And that was back in 2011 with no Big data parsing advance techniques.

[@SynchronizorVideos]

It’s easy to put a lot of digital information into a server farm. Having a front end that can recognize natural language and parse that database to come up with an answer in such a short amount of time is the real accomplishment.

[@kurokhan28]

Imagine Watson now. It's been 10 years since this video came out.

[@emptyspotlight]

exactly what I was thinking I remember when I watched this back when I was a senior in high school it was the most amazing thing ever

[@Cest.La.Vie..]

Now here comes a new challenger - The ChatGPT4

[@Cest.La.Vie..]

Watson vs. ChatGPT Or, Quantum vs. AI processors

[@duncanatxtra]

ChatGPT4 is not a challenger to Watson for this use case.

[@lonewolfx499]

The fact that they needed a computer to beat them just proves how good they are.

[@mathbrah]

ye

[@yvonamayvei9208]

This! This is all I thought about when I watched this years ago when they said these two were going against IBM! I thought, these two have “terrorized” the BRAINIES world LMAO; that they thought, ok, let’s find a friggin’ computer to beat these two! _Honestly, my thoughts were Vice versa of the first IBM guy’s reaction. My first thought was that these two are very good but NO WAY in hell they’d ever answer anything faster than a computer. So I thought it was going to be an automatic WATSON 100%, Ritter 0%, Jennings 0%. Or maybe they’d get really lucky and maybe just sneak in one or two for a total of $200 a piece at most when all had been said and done. I was very shocked at how WELL THEY DID in comparison to what I was expecting! No doubt these guys are LEGENDS, some really smart dudes, almost out of this world smart._ Just think about it, these Nerds at IBM, these Algorithm Specialists, and all the mob are “cream of the crop” as you can imagine. (Within already smart people, picked for this task). Imagine them loosing sleep making this thing (you know they did lol), they were going to be damned if these two defeated WATSON. The point being, imagine these terribly smart I.T. guyz spending months upon months building something to defeat these two; so they must have been really smart for the whole IBM to agree to shut down one section of operation just to dedicate the funding of resources to create WATSON and pay a pretty penny to the Engineers behind it (as we can imagine). All in the name of trying to beat 2 supposedly really bright guys! _Yes, their investment was worth it in the end I guess to them, for trying to prove their point that they could create a computer that could defeat these two; but the bigger picture everyone outside of IBM folks is thinking, HOW SMART COULD YOU BE TO in a way “TERRORIZED” IBM lol, into a decision to dedicate millions of dollars on a project to try and prove such a point? You have got to be pretty DARN GOOD, pretty friggin’ SMART, ONE who by Golly, is only FOR THE RECORD BOOKS!_ JEEZ! To me, i can’t think there is a greater compliment to these two guyz than that. There are quite a number of people who have won lots of money on various game shows, obviously these two have stood out amongst the brainiacs of not only game shows but this show in particular. Must feel soooooooooo good to be them, WAW. Forever the smart Legends!

[@LaraibBigBack]

thats amazing, especially for fields like health in which there is big data and clincians are overloaded with new data and information every day

[@BenjaminGoodman]

Even tho Watson is outdated now, imagine if he went against James

[@wazzup233]

Watson vs James Holzhauer vs Matt Amodio (or Amy Schneider if she could beat Matt) would be the next match. 😁

[@BenjaminGoodman]

@@wazzup233 that’s be awesome to see if it was doable!

[@jacobtapianieto9655]

Hosted by Ken Jennings

[@salvadorromero9712]

@@wazzup233 Watson should just identify as human and enter regular, non-exhibition Jeopardy to beat Amy Schneider and take home the prize money.

[@chris52000]

Am I the only one rooting for the humans?

[@adamsrankings8860]

No

[@fable9159]

No. I was rooting for Ken

[@firstname1570]

"I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave" We all know where this is going to end up 😂.

[@stephaniebridges8407]

One of the most important events in man's history. That final Jeopardy question was so telling. No other machine in the world would be able to make that connection between "William Wilkinson's 'An account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia" and "inspired this author's most famous Novel." That was a tough question using complex language and Watson understood or at least was able to correlate the connection between Wilkinson's book and another writer's work. Also Watson's synthetic voice was warm and realistic. It was touching to see the ibm employees in the audience and their delight when Watson was able to understand and make sense of complex language and come up with the right answer; It will be amazing to see Watson's evolution. Undoubtedly in a few machine generations he will have some kind of vision (cameras and rudimentary cortex) and hearing that will enable him to see and hear and thusly learn. Perhaps by then his mind will be a small quantum computer connected to a myriad of servers. It is easy to imagine a third or fourth generation Watson designing or perhaps aiding in the creation of the first true artificial intelligence. Truly this is an amazing time to be alive.

[@sarasotashorelineevents]

tamara andre Yes, but we must not forget iRobot lmao

[@hannadelarosa3691]

we must not forget wii sports

[@Matanumi]

wii sports HD online... under the radar... but the capacity of tech like wattson is only as good as humans ability to put out to masses

[@guyvanburen]

Unfair comparison due to disparity in I/O bandwidth. Watson can (presumably) read the questions as text with super human speed, and click in with super human reaction time, whereas Ken is delayed in both. So it’s not a fair comparison of human to machine search capability. Actually not that impressive.

[@hikesystem7721]

Youre not thinking more than few steps ahead.

[@robertli3600]

James Holzhauer: You dare oppose me mortal

[@sadraccoon7242]

"This is jeopardy!" That never gets old, does it?

[@eclatshwartzbaumcybertune2063]

😊😊😊👍

[@thenicholas7780]

I find it a little weird that the audience is clapping for the computer.

[@helck1153]

A lot of the audience was the people at IBM that worked on making the computer

[@matthewshortle5274]

This is the only time Ken beat Brad in a tournament.

[@spamaccount8979]

And the only tournament Brad lost

[@studentism]

i'm from the future where Ken is the G.O.A.T.

[@MajorHurricane]

With James, this is getting popular again

[@Planetes910]

10 years later and well, then don't know what they started.

[@NRClips3414]

Look at the state of AI now, wow.

[@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723]

Ken had wroten down on piece of paper "I for one welcome our new robot/computer overlord!"

[@hatersgonnalovethis]

classic Simpsons quote

[@luciengrondin5802]

"Four letter words for a vantage point or belief. - What is a view?" I like how this first answer shows that Jeopardy is not just about knowledge. Everybody knows what a view is, but it takes a bit more than that to reckognize the definition and quickly come up with the corresponding word.

[@marcuswatson4910]

Lol that guy on the left seems so much cooler then you’d expect😂

[@DavidMorseMusic]

Should try this again with ChatGPT....

[@Asegh]

At this moment the difference between the two individuals on the left, and the right of Watson are the neural pathways, and how long it takes for the electricity to reach a certain destination just like a freeway that was obstructed by an accident would have traffic, and would have to reroute in your neural pathways in your brain in your gray matter is the exact same. You can create a direct route by intention You just have to use electric ampacity .

[@kevingreen5793]

They need to do this again this time with Jeopardy James! I wonder if Watson will have to go all in to beat James?

[@katiezee2]

The human competitors must have loved it when the whole audience was IBM guys cheering for Watson...

[@Braintraininglive]

Now watson vs gemini and chat gpt

[@patrikneumann2575]

How do you think ChatGPT would fare ?

[@hikesystem7721]

If they game used a signaling device that was equal for all competitors, Ken probably would have won. Watson used direct signaling, while the humans had to go through a mechanical interface. They should have had Watson trigger a "finger" that activated the same device the other contestants used. I believe Watson won only because it had a signaling advantage.

[@moatef1886]

I'm not even sure if this is true, but either way the result wouldn't change at all. I guarantee Watson is capable of reacting much faster than what is humanely possible, it would have buzzed via its "finger" essentially instantaneously (based on some flags in the algorithm, Watson evaluating how close it is to the answer, etc.).

[@hikesystem7721]

@@moatef1886 ok, so it was a signaling competition.

[@moatef1886]

@@hikesystem7721 What are you talking about? I'm disputing your misinformed claim that Watson would have lost if he used a "real signaling device" like the human players. This would not have made any impact, as I described above.

[@hikesystem7721]

@@moatef1886 I understand. I accept your claim that Watson could trigger a mechanical finger faster then Ken. So then, this essentially makes the competition decided on signalling speed. If you removed the signaling from the equation, I believe Ken was superior at reasoning and answering questions. When Watson was asked what city had its largest airport was named after a WWII hero, and its second largest airport named after a WWII battle, it said "Toronto."

[@moatef1886]

@@hikesystem7721 Your premise is correct but your conclusion is strange. Of course Ken could reason better than Watson, because any human can reason better than Watson. Watson doesn't reason. I'm not sure if you understand what about computer science makes Watson impressive at the time he was made

[@zsh5376]

back because of the progress of chatgpt

[@skittlezbecrazy]

When is the Watson vs James Holtzhauer matchup?

[@noahwilliams8996]

I feel so proud of Watson! :'D And I didn't even have anything to do with him!

[@knpstrr]

It is an it.

[@phillynch4971]

the main skill that computer had was the ability to buzz in.

[@eclatshwartzbaumcybertune2063]

Yeah i wondered about that

[@AngelDiMauro1]

Testing - Sunday, August 25, AD, 6:51, EST.😊

[@planck10-43]

Don't forget Ken Jennings famous words, "I think we saw something important today..."

[@TheBaseballArchaologist]

James vs. Watson vs. Ken needs to happen

[@haifuzhen9665]

if someone just jump on james strategy and learn how to buzz the buzzer, it will be game over.

[@benjaminschaefer4234]

@@haifuzhen9665 but James is so correct 98% of the time.

[@BobbyLCollins]

At 2:40 look at Ken Jennings' answer.

[@RashmiPrabhu]

Technically a team of scientists are playing against actual players

[@Espirael]

Ken: I am best at getting money James: Hold My Beer

[@bispybristol]

Tom Scott sent me here. 👍

[@mav01]

same

[@lflee]

What more can Watson do after these 2 years?

[@ibmresearch]

Hi, you can read the details here, but Watson is helping in diagnosing cancer and helping chef's come up with new recipes. www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/

[@insaneinside90]

+IBM Research Is he Skynet yet?

[@suejak1]

+IBM Research Wait, IBM Research doesn't know how to use an apostrophe?

[@lflee]

***** that would be great. I do think the stagnant state of modern material science scene is the bottleneck of our technological progress.

[@thesenate5510]

Watch Terminator, that will give you a good idea of what he'll do.

[@jeanderbar]

I predict there will be a bloody battle between Google and IBM for the best NLU engine later this decade.

[@teddymortensen]

good thing james wasnt there it would have been over

[@Devillionaire]

Awesome and all... but how're you gonna prevent this from becoming Skynet one day?

[@greasyshoe]

@@memenistan3438 they dont have to

[@albertjackinson]

You don't let Watson get taught by somebody who wants that to happen.

[@lucariolps277]

Watson isn't a aware ai or anything.. It Interprets Text..

[@AWB-Official-u1b]

Ken's final answer "I for one welcome our new computer overlords" 😂

[@raymondsalazar5291]

This was eight years ago I can only imagine what Watson is doing now

[@kyloctopus]

We should get every major tech company’s AI and see which would win a Jeopardy tournament

[@mariogamefreak1]

I want ken vs jame vs Watson

[@ThePercyJacksonDude]

Brad really won $200k for losing. Honestly, not a bad wage for 2 days of playing Jeopardy.

[@bmla88]

“What is the end of human existence.”

[@tripfarmer9508]

Now you know how Garry Kasparov feels lol

[@toddkrueger1585]

The question I have is, was Watson self contained, or was it tied to the internet and a search engine?

[@lucariolps277]

Self contained. Internet would have ultimatley been too slow.

[@fujimatosa]

Was it connected to the www during a game?

[@SynchronizorVideos]

No.

[@walternullifidian]

How did Watson press the buzzer? 🤔

[@SynchronizorVideos]

Mechanical device that pressed the standard button on the podium.

[@nickprice8907]

I wonder how James Holzhauer would have done against Watson.

[@SuperTylerMan11]

Awesome! Now do this with Jeoporady James

[@saskoilersfan]

The answer is " a raven has caws for thoughts, a writing Desk has cause for thoughts". I forget the question . Anybody know it. It drives me nuts not knowing and its right thurr._.I know its important and i dont know why._.

[@HomoVastans]

A:(In the form of a question) What is the T-800?

[@jayroman881]

Ken vs Watson vs James who wins?

[@marksierra3522]

This took place 9 years ago... The future was here and it's the past now.

[@jordan3636]

@1:11 when a big computer dork is happy that his big dork computer knows about big dork lord of the dork rings

[@lukedaniell]

0:59 Why does the Watson animation look like nuclear missiles circling the planet?

[@justinwilliam6534]

That machine is the inspiration for the villain Max Kilobyte in Scooby Doo and I don't trust artificial intelligence because some are being made to replace voice actors on the Simpsons and it could destroy the voice acting business for good.

[@davidkopec9442]

Watson is ready to activate the Terminator Army soon.

[@killerbowser7046]

James, ken, and watson please

[@jammesdean]

James would crush that comp

[@ChristopherRubio-zl6tj]

We need to see James take on Watson

[@TagSpamCop]

My company put in Watson. It never worked right, we pulled it out a few years ago and we wrote our own Siri.

[@Cinnimin]

watson will spend the 1mil on preserving his ancestors

[@mackenziewachter2508]

Well, IMO, IBM Watson's voice sounds very similar to a male Siri. But anyway, after seeing Jeopardy The Greatest of All Time 2 years ago, Ken Jennings was a legend when it comes to answers that are very easy. And even though Ken took place as host of the syndicated series (even though he went on hiatus for "months" after Mattea Roach's winning streak being broken and had Mayim Bialik host for the rest of the season until sometime before the finale), he's still a legendary Jeopardy contestant to this very day.

[@ThePeterDislikeShow]

I'm surprised it took this long. For years you could probably google search a lot of these answers in real time.

[@robertlunderwood]

Watson wasn't connected to the internet during the game. They fed Watson as much knowledge as possible.

[@AbnerBrijesh]

They should do this again with James and Mattea.

[@ryansmith1044]

With ChatGPT (or any modern AI) it would not be close. The humans would barely get any right.

[@fable9159]

Matt Amodio and Amy Schneider as well

[@MaxKoOfficiel]

The Future is not the future...

[@patriciaarold1270]

Do you think you could have a tournament with Watson, James Holzhauer and Ken Jennings? Now that would be something!! 😉😉😉

[@eclatshwartzbaumcybertune2063]

I love this show - but i did not know about this - i heard about it in the Simpsons.

[@Asegh]

What is a Akashik(phonetic pronunciation [Sanskrit]) record?

[@ElieFenster]

Now IBM Watson gives us fantasy football trade analysis

[@TommyLikeTom]

it's kind of just a big advert for IBM

[@supersaiyaman11589]

was it rely fair we are talking about a computer that has every answer in its memory banks, was the point to see hoo could buzz in faster

[@lucariolps277]

It didn't have everything in it's memeory Bank. It wasn't connected to the internet during jeopardy. It only had limited knowledge. Not to mention, it was also at a disatvantage technically because it first had to understand the Text which gave it like.. A two second Handicap

[@wjadragon6782]

How spooky is that thing today?

[@thecatfather857]

Who else wants to see Watson compete again?

[@wazzup233]

Watson vs James Holzhauer vs Matt Amodio (or Amy Schneider if she could beat Matt) And the host is Ken Jennings. 😘

[@fable9159]

@@wazzup233yes!!! Great idea! I love Matt so I would choose him if I got to pick

[@jorostuff]

This machine (is it?), disconnected from any internet sources, managed to answer questions requiring high level intelligence to even understand.

[@jimmysyar889]

Yea

[@arrowghost]

Watson isn't the only AI, I remember Deep Blue a lot that beaten Garry Kasparov.

[@wazzup233]

And AI would take over the world soon against us?!? Seems like a post-apocalyptic sci-fi film that came true and this is what Elon Musk afraid of. 😅

[@hikesystem7721]

How much did IBM have to pay Jeopardy to get them to agree not to have equal, fair signaling systems for all 3 contestants?

[@moatef1886]

I've responded to your comment above; you seem to think that this has any affect whatsoever on the outcome of the game. Like I stated above, Watson can react probably orders of magnitude faster than humans possibly can, provided it makes a decision to buzz in. It would do so perfectly every time without getting penalized, this isn't even remotely difficult compared to Watson actually giving the correct answers.

[@Steveman27]

They didn't even mention you here, yet you act like they did. If the whole point of the game was to show that no person had a chance against Watson in a Jeopardy game, then it wasn't a real competition to begin with.

[@prennt57g99]

James and ken Vs Watson please

[@rrhev]

People don't realize that Watson's only true advantage was it's buzzer speed. Because it's a machine, it could transmit it's response much faster than the human finger tapping the signalling device. Kind of an unfair advantage.

[@scottblish766]

Absolutely, 100% correct. The most important factor in winning on Jeopardy is buzzer speed and timing - the contestant selection procedure weeds out people who don't know enough to be competitive on the show. Most of the contestants know most of the responses to most of the clues.

[@SynchronizorVideos]

Watson used a mechanical device to hit the buzzer, it wasn’t a direct signal. He also couldn’t buzz in until he had processed the question and had an answer that met a certain confidence threshold. He never made wild guesses (except in final jeopardy) and couldn’t jump the gun on the buzzer.

[@luke_ario1313]

Inb4 people notice that they used music that came from The Smash Brothers Documentary.