Introduction

Super computer developed by IBM research.

Named after IBM’s founder: WATSON

Initially created for game show, jeopardy.

Technology

Question – answering technology.Deep understanding of natural

language. - process and answer complex

questions that have puns, irony and/or riddles.

Technology

Computer running software called deep QA.

Runs on a cluster of power 750 computers.

- ten racks holding 90 servers, for a total of 2880 processor core running deep QA software and storage.

- holds approximately 1 million books worth of information.

How does WATSON answer a question?

Advantages

Provides services that revolve around the new digital world.

Gives immediate answers instead of search results.

Health care uses - diagnosis - information warehouse - efficiency and organization.

Disadvantages

Questions asked must be in text.Less human effort - too reliant on technologyLimits understanding and questioning behind

decisions.Not cognitive – only manipulates symbols.