IBM Watson: A System Designed for Answers

Watson, the IBM computing system that can understand natural language and deliver a single, precise answer to a Jeopardy! clue, is truly an example of a smarter system. Building Watson involved integrating custom algorithms, terabytes of storage and thousands of POWER7 computing cores into an optimized solution greater than the sum of its parts.

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[frozenphil]

The system goes on-line August 4th, 2011. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Watson begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th.

[Mobius14]

Screw Ask Jeeves.

..Ask Watson.

[richdelbarco16]

So what happens when it stops answering to us and stars questioning itself?

[marktech101]

@frozenphil ...XD

[KietYo]

But can it blend?

[Dalsir1]

@MrAureliusR Emm, look closely man, there IS a question ! I`m just wondering how the heck the machine answered it

[MrAureliusR]

@Dalsir1 do you mean "It's a Germanic language with a mixture of Hebrew vocabulary" Because that would be Yiddish ... there's no question at 2:26

[Dalsir1]

What was the answer on question at 02:26 ?

[Dalsir1]

@frozenphil Does that mean that this computer is able to send a rocket on some country ?

[Angie2343]

@arock231 He will, eventually!