Watson needs to be clever to untwist the obtuse questions, all the while coping with Trebek's folksy conversation.
IBM's Watson is best known as the computer that won US gameshow Jeopardy! in 2011, harnessing its understanding of natural language to parse the show's obtuse questions phrased as answers.
In my case, they asked for information about my wife, my visa status for which they demanded proof in the form of my Alien Registration Card and even obtuse questions about what I had done in Japan in the seven years that I've lived here.
Bobby Gillespie has remained doggedly obtuse when questioned about it since, though then bassist Mani admitted to NME at the time that he felt "pretty numbed by it.
So it was that we heard about his failing fictional protagonist, Guy Ableman, meeting his fictional readers, and facing a series of increasingly obtuse, aggressive questions: why aren't there more characters to identify with?
"If the private sector is interested in funding obscure or obtuse social science question, then let them," he adds.
She recently did what most of feel like doing when we listen to talkback and hung up on talkback radio host Ben Fordham after a series of obtuse and belligerent questions, and she's got the ringing approval of both Bob Brown and Malcolm Fraser.
This argument's logic, at once consistent and deliberately obtuse, raises one obvious question: Why stop at half? (Activists are already asking). After all, under this theory of what counts as faithfully executing the law, all that matters is that somebody, somewhere, is being deported; anyone and everyone else can be allowed to work and stay.
Mr. Cobb can be breathtakingly obtuse on larger historical questions.
In fact, gurgles Fry in tones of molten corduroy, "Some of us may even be heroes!" Eye Spy naturally aims to prove this thesis via a series of wholly arbitrary CCTV stunts, bewilderingly obtuse gotchas and "psychological questions".
