Comment: Re:I couldn't help but notice that I was right... (Score 1) 674
Indeed, you could see on all the short clues, Watson would still be thinking (you could see his confidence bars moving after someone else had rung in), simply because he hadn't had time to sift through all the data it needed. Any clue taking more than 5 or so seconds to read, Watson would have determined all that it would at the moment it was able to buzz in. So you can see that the ability to break down the answer and find what bits are important is very impressive, then the time spent searching is pretty well constant. So in all the other uses IBM people have been talking about (i.e. medical diagnoses), Watson would do fine since a 5-6 second wait time just doesn't really matter.