Today I got a LinkedIn message from a guy who wrote a Watson-like bot to answer the AOL contest questions back in 2005. He expected to win and thought I must have made a better bot to beat him.
He even made a YouTube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuwQYiaAGZE
Cheating WWTBAM
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Bob Juch
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Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
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Re: Cheating WWTBAM
I don’t think it’s cheating since Jack developed the bot all by himself. He was decades ahead of his time. They’d never have a contest like that now since today’s bots would win easily.
OTOH it took Jack twenty years to realize a human won the contest and track him down.
OTOH it took Jack twenty years to realize a human won the contest and track him down.
Last edited by jarnon on Wed Apr 09, 2025 12:05 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Bob Juch
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Re: Cheating WWTBAM
Exactly. He said in the video he got 75% with the bot. I was over 90%. Does anyone still have the actual numbers from 2005?jarnon wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 11:34 amI don’t think it’s cheating since Jack developed the bot all by himself. He was decades ahead of his time. They’d never have a contest like that now since today’s bots would win easily.
OTOH it took Jack decades to realize a human won the contest and track him down.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.