After having watched the first half of game one: Another interesting category that Watson seemed to have a lot of trouble with was a category where all the answers were decades (1910s, 1920s, etc.). The top answers that Watson came up with were always years, but he was never that confident, and he never caught on that the answers were supposed to be a span of years.
I've read that Watson may ignore the category titles as they are often puns or confusing text that doesn't help him find an answer. Rather, I think, they may been seen as more of a source of confusion than help.
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After having watched the first half of game one: Another interesting category that Watson seemed to have a lot of trouble with was a category where all the answers were decades (1910s, 1920s, etc.). The top answers that Watson came up with were always years, but he was never that confident, and he never caught on that the answers were supposed to be a span of years.
I've read that Watson may ignore the category titles as they are often puns or confusing text that doesn't help him find an answer. Rather, I think, they may been seen as more of a source of confusion than help.
It did figure it out eventually, on the one where it answered the 20's incorrectly after Ken already did.