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IBM's Question-Answering System "Watson" Revisited

Posted by timothy on from the can-only-give-you-answers dept.

religious freak writes "IBM has created and made the question answering algorithm, Watson, available online. Watson has competed in and won a majority of (mock) matches against humans in Jeopardy. Watson does not connect to the Internet to answer his questions, but rather seeks answers using many different algorithms then employs a ranking algorithm to choose the best answer." We mentioned Watson last year as well.

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  1. I'll be impressed by Kitkoan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If it can properly rate if these people are hot or not.

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