IBM researchers are hard at work creating a computer that will match wits against humans on the television show Jeopardy. Compared to checkers, chess, or backgammon, playing Jeopardy would seem to be a hard task for a computer because language is such a fundamental part of answering the questions correctly.
I found this article on the subject, written by David Goldman of CNNMoney.com, to be both informative and entertaining.
In the spirit of Jeopardy — if Mr. Goldman is smart — if
the answer is “How David Goldman paid for his children’s
college tuition,” then the question surely should be, “With the hefty book
advance he received for the book that came out of the article he wrote on IBM taking on Jeopardy.”
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I’m not sure where to marvel at how advanced technology is nowadays or be scared that robots can almost ‘think’ and play Jeopardy…
You didn’t put it in a question form!
The question would have been what did Mr. Goldman did with the hefty book advance he received for the book that came out of the article he wrote on IBM taking on Jeopardy?
I’m sorry, Prof. Levitt, but your answer must be in the form of a question.
Actually, it would probably be pretty easy to program it to preface every answer with What Is?
Steve, you’ve flipped the format.
“With the hefty book advance he received for the book that came out of the article he wrote on IBM taking on Jeopardy” is not phrased in the form of a question!
Should be the (nonsensical-sounding) “What is the hefty book advance he received for the book that came out of the article he wrote on IBM taking on Jeopardy?”
I’ve always wanted to see a contestant answer like “Could it be George Washington?”
wikipedia would kick that-nerdy-guy-who-won-28-times-in-a-row’s ass