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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.