Anyone know how the buzzers work? It's my impression that they are disabled until a moment after the question has been read completely, and then the first to buzz in gets a chance to answer. I wonder if they took steps to ensure that the computer doesn't have an edge in buzzing in first.
Engadget has a video of the actual contest, and an interview with the IBM guys:<p><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/13/ibms-watson-supercomputer-destroys-all-humans-in-jeopardy-pract/" rel="nofollow">http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/13/ibms-watson-supercomputer...</a>
Hardly amazing that a computer with access to billions of pages of information can out-trivia humans.<p>I suppose the story here is supposed to be the natural language processing, but really the space which is covered by Jeopardy questions is pretty confined. Color me unimpressed.