Building Watson - A Brief Overview of the DeepQA Project

David Ferrucci of IBM discusses the DeepQA Project; the technology and architecture behind IBM's newest technological innovation, the question answering and natural language processing system, Watson.

Visit ibmwatson.com for more information.

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[evilkillerwhale]

For the people complaining about the natural log problem, they added a set of parentheses.

The answer they give is for: ln(12546798*pi)^2/34567.46

In that case, oh darn, the marketing guy at IBM didn't follow of order of ops properly. Who cares?

[SonOfNye]

So, Watson is completely self contained, the next step is linking to the net.

[ank10858]

bloody hell you have such a great technology... and what u doing with it....

make it open source. let ppl find its applications.

[Ed Sm]

But Incredible i hear many many people talking about wrong concept "programmed = predictable" , but you can program , a self programmable system ( with learn capacity ) , after watching Watson sounds obvious ? ...

[Ed Sm]

Yep and name Watson will be replaced by Skynet .

[bighands69]

Education may go in that direction were it is not about memorizing information but how to use systems.

[bighands69]

Or it may ask you what you mean by the meaning of life.

[MisanthropyOne]

Skynet Is comming

[Martinadel1]

If IBM is gonna make a even better computer than Watson, they should call it Sherlock Holmes. So it would be Sherlock Holmes and Watson :)

[Antonio U]

If I could ask Watson something it would be: What is the meaning of life? and I wonder if it would answer something like... "the meaning of life if to help the others". Can Watson give me not just a right answer but a wise answer?

[oneCaptainPicard]

yes technically I'm in agreement