IBMwatson
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IBM Watson is a question answering computer system designed by IBM to understand natural language questions and provide precise answers. It relies on cognitive computing rather than traditional rule-based logic. Watson was named after IBM's first CEO. The document then discusses that Watson competed successfully on the game show Jeopardy in 2011, analyzing vast amounts of data to understand questions and generate evidence-based responses. It also outlines Watson's hardware, software, achievements and potential future applications in fields like healthcare.
IBMwatson
- 2. Abstract IBM Watson may be best known for competing on the US quiz show Jeopardy, but the technology goes far beyond simple questions and answers. Watson is an entirely new form of computing, one that promises to discover hitherto undiscovered insights based on the wealth of data all around us. While traditional computer models have relied on rigid mathematic principles, utilising software built upon rules and logic, Watson instead relies on what IBM is calling “cognitive computing.” Watson was the named after IBM’s first CEO.
- 3. What is IBM Watson? Watson is a customized computer system designed by IBM researchers to deliver a single, precise answer to question posed in natural language. Following its tradition of grand challenges, IBM will pit watson against human player on jeopardy! to test this scientific achievements and refine its potential application in the field of science, fiance, healthcare, and industry.
- 5. Hardware
- 6. Hardware ❏ Watson made up of a cluster of ninety IBM Power 750 servers with a 2880 Power 7 processors cores and 16 terabytes of RAM. ❏ Watson can process 500 gigabytes, the equivalent of a million books, per second. ❏ Watson’s hardware cost at about $3 million and with 80 TeraFlops would be placed on 94th on the top 500 supercomputer list,and 49th on the top 50 supercomputer list. ❏ The content was stored in watson’s RAM for the game because data stored on hard drives are too slow to access data.
- 7. Software ● Suse linux enterprise server ● Apache UIMA ● IBM’s DeepQa s/w ● Java, c++, prolog
- 8. Significance ❏ Analyses the huge amount of data. ❏ Understand human language and meaning at massive scale. ❏ Generates evidence based hypothesis. ❏ Learns from the responses. ❏ Extended corpus.
- 9. Achievements ● In 2001 winning first place prize of $1 million from “jeopardy!” game show. ● The film studio 20th century Fox is called IBM Watson,the supercomputer, to create the triler for a movie AI horror/thriller,Morgan. ● The Watson supercomputer in an effort to recommend treatment for lung cancer.
- 10. WORKING PROCESS
- 14. Done a one year after watsons jeopardy,show some of its rapid progress.
- 15. Future Uses