Tuesday's TV Highlights: 'Jeopardy' on KABC

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WHAT IS MAN VS. MACHINE? Alex Trebek, left, hosts former champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter and a supercomputer on “Jeopardy,” at 7 p.m on ABC.

SERIES

NCIS: After a suicide bomber tries to assassinate the Belgravian defense minister, the team protects his daughter (Elena Satine), who is studying in the U.S. — and who has a crush on McGee (Sean Murray) in this new episode (8 p.m. CBS). 

One Tree Hill: Forget the lies and the videotape; it's sex games, secrets and shoelaces that all play a part — somehow — as the couples of Tree Hill celebrate Valentine's Day. Sophia Bush, James Lafferty, Bethany Joy Galeotti, Robert Buckley and Austin Nichols star in this new episode (8 p.m. KTLA). 

Glee: Rachel (Lea Michele) enlists the help of Brittany (Heather Morris) as she tries to reinvent herself and launch a major social comeback at McKinley High. Chord Overstreet, Matthew Morrison, Jane Lynch and Chris Colfer also star in this new episode (8 p.m. Fox). 

NCIS: Los Angeles: Sam and Callen (LL Cool J, Chris O'Donnell) go under cover as California Highway Patrol officers in hope of exposing corrupt cops who may be participating in an illegal operation with military personnel in this new episode (9 p.m. CBS). 

Dirty Jobs: Mike collects sponges off the sea floor in this new episode (9 p.m. Discovery). 

Raising Hope: After Sabrina (Shannon Woodward) points out to Jimmy (Lucas Neff) how germ-laden his home is, the family becomes obsessed with cleanliness. Martha Plimpton and Garrett Dillahunt also star in this new episode (9 p.m. Fox). 

Traffic Light: Callie (Aya Cash) is upset after the guys get rid of a carnival prize dog that Adam (Nelson Franklin) won for her several years ago in this new episode (9:30 p.m. Fox). 

Parenthood: Adam and Kristina (Peter Krause, Monica Potter) plan a birthday party for Max (Max Burkholder) hosted by a children's performer (Michael Emerson) who has Asperger's in this new episode (10 p.m. NBC). 

MOVIES 

The Sunset Limited: Samuel L. Jackson and Tommy Lee Jones star in the 2011 TV movie (8:30 p.m. HBO). 

SPORTS

College basketball: Mississippi State at Kentucky (4 p.m. ESPN); Texas Tech at Missouri (4 p.m. ESPN2); Michigan State at Ohio State (6 p.m. ESPN).

Photo: Associated Press

Comments

[trains o scale]

Watson would be in the lead if it could hear the incorrect responses of other players, since it wouldn’t have repeated Ken’s incorrect answer if it could.
Looks like we should all start preparing for the machines to take over.

[Atlanta Roofing]

Watson is doing no more cheating than his human counterpoints. According to IBM: "Watson’s buzzing is not instantaneous. For some clues he may not complete the question answering computation in time to make the decision to buzz in. For all clues, even if he does have an answer and confidence ready in time, he still has to respond to the signal and physically depress the button.
The best human contestants don’t wait for, but instead anticipate when Trebek will finish reading a clue. They time their “buzz” for the instant when the last word leaves Trebek’s mouth and the “Buzzer Enable” light turns on. Watson cannot anticipate. He can only react to the enable signal. While Watson reacts at an impressive speed, humans can and do buzz in faster than his best possible reaction time."

[Bob Keithline]

Watson vs. the humans is like an impressive magic trick. Very impressive until you see how it's done. Jeopardy is a game of response, i.e., time. 1. Watson is receiving the questions electronically. Watson is already searching for the answer before the humans finish hearing it or reading it. The humans have to wait for either Alex to read the question or read it themselves off a board to be able to fully understand the question. 2. Technically once the question is read there is a time frame when the button can be pushed. If you push it too soon you are locked out. After having come up with a response and then passing that information from their brain to their thumb the humans must physically press a button. Watson electronically monitors when the time frame is available and instantly beeps in. Again, no time lag. Watson's abilities are indeed enormous. It is not unlike the physical agility of an illusionist who has the ability to fold his body or the agility to do things the average person can't do. Yet the unfair advantage of physical response time deludes the outcome to make it appear far more impressive than it actually is........Great trick IBM.

[New Buffalo MI fishing]

Watson does buzz in before the answer is formulated which is similar to how humans respond, but is also unfair in this type of competition as this is a game of mental prowess and not reflex speed. So Watson should not be able to buzz until after it formulates the response to be more fair. Mean it would still win, but perhaps not by as much.