{"id":736,"date":"2009-04-27T13:31:06","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T20:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=736"},"modified":"2009-04-27T13:31:06","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T20:31:06","slug":"the-first-artificial-contestant-on-americas-favorite-quiz-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/27\/the-first-artificial-contestant-on-americas-favorite-quiz-show\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Artificial Contestant on America&#039;s Favorite Quiz Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Answer: This highly successful television quiz show is the latest challenge for artificial intelligence.<br \/>\nQuestion: What is \u201cJeopardy\u201d?<br \/>\nNot content with simply winning at chess, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/27\/technology\/27jeopardy.html?scp=1&amp;sq=jeopardy&amp;st=cse\">IBM has decided to build a machine that can win at &#8220;Jeopardy.&#8221;<\/a> One point that has been decided is that the box will not be hooked up to the net during the match &#8211; it will have to reference its memory just like the rest of us.  While you might think who cares, it&#8217;s brain can be many terabytes in size, just remember the AI has to synthesize the answer and then search this ridiculous amount of data before a human can do the same to figure out the right question.  Sounds like a huge query challenge.  Because it is.<br \/>\nAs Kasparov is to chess, Ken Jennings is to &#8220;Jeopardy&#8221; so I hope that the AI indeed plays KenJen and that KenJen takes it down to Chinatown&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer: This highly successful television quiz show is the latest challenge for artificial intelligence. Question: What is \u201cJeopardy\u201d? Not content with simply winning at chess, IBM has decided to build a machine that can win at &#8220;Jeopardy.&#8221; One point that has been decided is that the box will not be hooked up to the net [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[338,630,660],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-jeopardy","tag-tech","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}