I heard via the Scott Van Pelt Show that Watson crashed several times during the taping of the first episode--so many times, in fact, that it took 4 hours to complete the round. Wow. Not impressed. Matt is our resident Jeopardy! expert. But I imagine that the average human contestant could not delay the game for this amount of time.
I can only imagine the fatigue that comes with four hours of waiting for Watson to reboot. This could be a decisive advantage to the computer. Thoughts?
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Apparently the problem wasn't with Watson, but with the interface between Watson and the Jeopardy computer. Not sure if that makes it better.
That is interesting...I hadn't heard that. I think the waiting around doing nothing might be annoying-- but they generally tape a week's worth of Jeopardy in an afternoon, so at least in Jennings' case being occupied in "Jeopardy mode" all day shouldn't be a large detriment.
But that's just it: Jennings isn't in "Jeopardy mode" all day. He's in the mode. Then he has to wait around for a reboot. Then he gets a rhythm going again. But wait--pause for another reboot.
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