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David Ferrucci: IBM Watson, Jeopardy & Deep Conversations with AI

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Jeopardy Challenge

I worry that the world would not understand it as a success because it came down to only one game. I knew statistically speaking this can be a huge technical success and we could still lose that one game. That's a whole other theme of the journey. It was a success for our goal. Our goal was to build the most advanced open domain question answering system. We went back to the old problems that we used to try to solve and we did dramatically better on all of them. As well as we beat jeopardy,  it was a success. But when you're looking up at the stars, what are you most proud of? To be treated science.

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