Could this be another leap for AI software?

**Alric** · 03-02-2011 01:20 AM

Well I was just watching the episode of Jeopardy, and it does look like it is just looking up answers. Questions with a lot "key" words in them confuse him. It seems very much like it is looking through a database and picking out what matches the best. So when multiple key words or phrases are used, it confuses him.

An example of this is the question, His victims include Charity Burbage, Mad Eye Moody, and Severus Snipe; He'd be easier to catch if you'd just name him! It showed the computer had no idea and though with the top choices of 37% chance it was harry potter, 20% chance voldermort and 8% chance Dumbledore. It make it really look as if it just took the names as key words and looked up in it's database and checked what had the most matches. Which is why harry potter came up more often, even though it wasn't even close to the right answer.

If you look at questions with dates or quotes in them however, it almost a 100% certain.

It guess doesn't appear to have anything to do with the difficulty of the question, but how it is worded and the number of key words or phrases in it. That isn't intelligence, that is looking up stuff in a database.

**cmind** · 03-02-2011 02:20 AM

Originally Posted by Alric

It guess doesn't appear to have anything to do with the difficulty of the question, but how it is worded and the number of key words or phrases in it. That isn't intelligence, that is looking up stuff in a database.

Maybe you should look in the mirror, because that's not so different from how humans do it.