But which of those constitutes guessing? The computer would likely have beaten me to the answer by at least a second :). It's easy enough to look up, for a computer that is. But in that instance a computer wouldn't need to guess. And for me, there were no multiple choices. It was hardly an educated guess - I never read the friggin book as I was supposed to! (the Odyssey). But the answer was a word I was familiar with from childhood, never actually knowing what it's origin was (mentor).
On Tuesday, January 17, 2023, 01:09:46 AM EST, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: On 1/16/23 21:54, Chris via cctalk wrote: > No one even bothered to try and answer my first question, which wasn't >actually posed as a question but that's irrelevant!! > > Can these things make food guesses. It was a long time ago, 15 - 20 years, I > was watching Jeopardy and within a relatively short span of time, days or > weeks apart, I successfully guessed the correct answer to the final question. > But none of the contestants did, and believe you me my success up until that > point was poor by comparison. I remember 1 of the questions, but both were > merely guesses, fairly educated ones one might say. But I didn't actually > know the answers. Can AI do that? Wasn't that done about 12 years ago using Watson? https://youtu.be/WFR3lOm_xhE --Chuck