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by ugh 5587 days ago
Everyone seems to forget that Watson would never have answered Toronto if it didn’t have to. It wasn’t at all confident, you can’t even really say that it made a mistake. It just didn’t know the answer and was – correctly so – very sure that it didn’t know the answer.
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Excellent point. But that "Toronto" was its highest guess makes you wonder if it could confidently select something that exploits whatever errors led to Toronto. And if you asked it a medical question, would it say "I don't know?" if it wasn't confident or would it give an answer anyway (along with a confidence level that might be ignored or rationalized away)?