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Google would have beaten Bing in Jeopardy, Wolfram says

February 3rd, 2011 No comments

Stephen Wolfram, The physical engine behind the answer Wolfram Alpha, believes that Google would have beaten Bing in each competition based on applications Jeopardy which is one of the most popular American quiz, He has done in some way the history of television from overseas and is much loved by the public.

Wolfram took a sample of questions of Jeopardy and he fed to search engines. Google has given 69% di risposte corrette, from http://it.ask.com that scored the 68% and Bing 63%. … To put it in context, the average human being gets the competitor 60% di risposte corrette, wof correct answersn Jennings has a record of 79%. It is interesting to note that Wikipedia came last with only 23%. In two weeks, Watson IBM competes in Jeopardy against two human samples with the hope to beat them as he did IBM's Deep Blue against Garry Kasparov in 1996.

Source: slashdot.org