IBM Watson
IBM Watson
Sander Siniorg
134676IAPB
Description
• Question answering computing system
• Can process 500 gigabytes per second
• Hardware cost about $3 million
• Sources of information: encyclopedias, dictionaries,
thesauri, newswire articles, and literary works
Operation
• Parses the clues into fragments
• Executes thousands algorithms simultaneously
• The more algorithms that find the same answer the more
likely Watson is to be correct
• Checks if potential solution makes sense
• Dynamic learning
History
• Development started in 2005
• First initial tests in 2006
• First successful tests in 2008
• Jeopardy matches in 2011