NOT Watson and Jeopardy

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 03:04:48PM -0500, Scott Elcomb wrote:
> "Watson is an artificial intelligence computer system capable of
> answering questions posed in natural language, developed in IBM's
> DeepQA project by a research team led by principal investigator David
> Ferrucci. Watson was named for IBM's first president, Thomas J.
> Watson. The program operates on POWER7 processor-based systems.

OK, not what I consider AI.  Well what do I know about AI anyhow then. :)

> In 2011, as a test of its abilities, Watson competed on the quiz show
> Jeopardy!, in the show's first and only human-versus-machine matchup."
> 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_(artificial_intelligence_software)>
> 
> Later in the overview, the entry states "Watson is a question
> answering (QA) computing system built by IBM. IBM describes it as 'an
> application of advanced Natural Language Processing, Information
> Retrieval, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, and Machine
> Learning technologies to the field of open domain question answering'
> which is 'built on IBM's DeepQA technology for hypothesis generation,
> massive evidence gathering, analysis, and scoring.'"
> 
> I believe Watson falls squarely under the umbrella term of Artificial
> Intelligence.

Hmm, OK.  I stand corrected.  I didn't think what it did would qualify
as AI.  Watson is very very impressive either way.

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Len Sorensen
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