Talk:IBM Watson

Wikipedia

Anybody know if Wikipedia is being used in Watson?Smallman12q (talk) 20:24, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

12/14/10 NYT article

I don't feel I am totally neutral on the topic of this article, and I'm not comfortable making anything but minor edits to it, so I wanted to list some information from the most recent New York Times article (already cited in the Watson article) that I think might be worth mention. If someone else would please evaluate these and add the ones they think worth mentioning to the article, that'd be great:

• Watson's opponents will be Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter (currently contained in the cite note for the article; probably worth moving to main article body)
• Prize money = $1million USD, with half to go to charity if a human wins and all to go to charity if Watson wins
• "“Jeopardy” producers said the computer qualified for the show by passing the same test that human contestants must pass."
• "I.B.M. will share some of the highlights of those games on its Web site in the coming weeks." <---perhaps add an EL to the place where the highlights are/will be posted?

keɪɑtɪk flʌfi (talk) 02:48, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Categories

It looks like Category:Jeopardy! contestants and Category:Contestants on American game shows would now apply for this article, but should they be added now or wait for the episodes to air? Radagast (talk) 13:52, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Oh man. It wasn't just a mock thing? They're actually going to air the episodes? Wow. Ray^Talk 22:05, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Potential sources

Some high-quality articles that can probably provide useful information for this article. These may or may not already be in the article; I haven't checked closely:

• IBM wins a spot on Jeopardy! (Bloomberg)
• I.B.M. Supercomputer ‘Watson’ to Challenge ‘Jeopardy’ Stars (NYT)
• Taking IBM's supercomputer to Final 'Jeopardy' (Q&A) (CNET interview with Watson manager)
• IBM takes on Jeopardy - has AI really got this far?

And some IBM/Jeopardy-run sites with information on Watson:

• IBM's official site for background information on Watson and the team that built it
• "Watson's" official twitter stream
• Jeopardy's press release (and auto-play video) about the competition

keɪɑtɪk flʌfi (talk) 23:13, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Source of Watson's voice

Robert K S and I spent today stepping on each other's feet over the addition of the following paragraph:

The source of Watson's synthesized voice was identified by New York Times readers as that of actor/audiobook narrator Jeff Woodman, from recordings he made for IBM in 2004 for a text-to-speech program. Woodman subsequently confirmed this on a syndicated radio show.[source 1 = comment on a New York Times article][source 2 = youtube video of the person speaking who is claimed to be Watson's voice]

I initially removed this paragraph because an anonymous comment on a news article seemed to me to be a patently invalid source, and using a youtube video of Woodman speaking as a citation for his being Watson's voice clear synthesis; however, Robert K S has re-added it and requested that if I dislike the sourcing then I simply leave the text and add a citation needed tag. I'm not quite sure where to go from here; my common sense is asserting that if there is no valid sourcing for the statement, especially since it involves a living person, it should not be present in the article, but I'm unwilling to edit war over the issue. Robert K S, could you perhaps explain why it is you think this information should stay in the article despite its lack of sourcing? Am I missing something reliable in the sources? A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 02:45, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

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Article title (artificial intelligence software). Watson seems now to refer to a specific computer system. Perhaps the "Jeopardy" machine needs its own page? Or tweak the article title.

134.131.125.49 (talk) 16:37, 7 February 2011 (UTC)