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Watson is a very powerful computer system that was developed by IBM to understand natural human language, interpret complex questions, and provide concise answers. It required massive amounts of processing power and storage to analyze vast amounts of text from sources like Wikipedia in mere seconds to compete on the game show Jeopardy. While an impressive achievement, Watson remains limited and cannot match the full range of human intelligence or problem solving abilities.

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Watson is a very powerful computer system that was developed by IBM to understand natural human language, interpret complex questions, and provide concise answers. It required massive amounts of processing power and storage to analyze vast amounts of text from sources like Wikipedia in mere seconds to compete on the game show Jeopardy. While an impressive achievement, Watson remains limited and cannot match the full range of human intelligence or problem solving abilities.

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1. How powerful is Watson? Describe its technology. Why does it require so much powerful
hardware?
2. How “intelligent” is Watson? What can it do? What can’t it do?
3. What kinds of problems is Watson able to solve? How useful a tool is it for knowledge
management?
4. Do you think Watson will be as useful in other disciplines as IBM hopes? Will it be beneficial
to everyone? Explain your answer.

In February 2011, an IBM computer named Watson took on the two most decorated champions
of the game show Jeopardy, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Watson, which was named after
IBM’s founder, Thomas J. Watson, won handily. Watson’s achievement represents a milestone
in the ability of computers to process and interpret human language. The goal of the IBM team,
a group of 25 researchers led by Dr. David Ferrucci, was to develop a more effective set of
techniques that computers can use to process “ natural language”— language that human
beings instinctively use, not language specially formatted to be understood by computers.
Watson had to go far beyond respond-ing to simple commands, or receiving only specific, pre-
defined inputs. Jeopardy questions are renowned for their wordplay, hidden meanings, and
tricky puns, and can deal with practically any subject mat-ter. Watson had to be able to register
the intent of a question, understand the language of a clue, search through millions of lines of
human language, and return a precise answer, all in less than three seconds. For computers,
language processing doesn’t get much harder.

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