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IBM Watson
Released January, 2011
The Pros:Very impressive technology. Cool avatar reacts while it's thinking, displays how confident it is. Amazing potential: search, Q&A, medicine, finance.
The Cons:Huge, expensive, hot, loud. Not good enough for final Jeopardy. Wants to enslave humanity.
Watson is an artificial intelligence designed by IBM to approach interpreting and understanding complex language. Running on a farm of IBM POWER7 servers it took on Jeopardy legends Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in two matches spanning February 14, 15 and 16.
User Reviews (9)
Pros & Cons
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very impressive technology
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cool avatar reacts while it's thinking, displays how confident it is
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Amazing potential: search, Q&A, medicine, finance
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sometimes says the darndest things
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cannot hear or see you ... yet
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Excellent betting strategy on Jeopardy
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Huge, expensive, hot, loud
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Not good enough for final Jeopardy
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wants to enslave humanity
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avatar is a spooky, 'friendly' looking version of HAL 9000's eye
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Surprisingly poor text-to-speech
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Yale:
#ibm_watson 0 competitors to the IBM Watson is right... I almost added Ken and Brad but that would be taking this way too far.
Feb 15, 11
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