The questions are always printed in the same font. Compared to the amount of processing power needed to answer them, the amount needed to do the OCR would be minimal.
I don’t think it’s just a matter of OCR—it seems that the computer would have to first focus in on the correct area of the game board where the clue is being displayed. I’m not sure how quickly and efficiently that could have been done.
That’s about 60 msec latency each way — not much.
As far as I know, a fast human can react in about 100 milliseconds. So 60 milliseconds each way would arguably have put the computer in the same ballpark as humans.
I don’t think it’s just a matter of OCR—it seems that the computer would have to first focus in on the correct area of the game board where the clue is being displayed. I’m not sure how quickly and efficiently that could have been done.
As far as I know, a fast human can react in about 100 milliseconds. So 60 milliseconds each way would arguably have put the computer in the same ballpark as humans.