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Jeopardy!: Watson Is A

Watson is an IBM question answering computer system capable of answering questions in natural language. In 2011, Watson competed on the game show Jeopardy! against human champions. Since then, IBM has expanded Watson's capabilities and applied it to various fields including healthcare, where it is used at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to help with cancer treatment decisions. Watson analyzes large amounts of natural language data to understand questions, generate hypotheses, evaluate evidence, and provide precise answers.

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Jeopardy!: Watson Is A

Watson is an IBM question answering computer system capable of answering questions in natural language. In 2011, Watson competed on the game show Jeopardy! against human champions. Since then, IBM has expanded Watson's capabilities and applied it to various fields including healthcare, where it is used at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to help with cancer treatment decisions. Watson analyzes large amounts of natural language data to understand questions, generate hypotheses, evaluate evidence, and provide precise answers.

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• Watson is a question-answering computer system capable of answering questions

posed in natural language.


• The computer system was initially developed to answer questions on the quiz
show Jeopardy![6] and, in 2011, the Watson computer system competed
on Jeopardy! against legendary champions.
• In February 2013, IBM announced that Watson software system's first commercial
application would be for utilization management decisions in lung cancer treatment
at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, in conjunction with
health insurance company WellPoint.[9] IBM Watson's former business chief, Manoj
Saxena, says that 90% of nurses in the field who use Watson now follow its
guidance.
• Watson was created as a question answering (QA) computing system that IBM built
to apply advanced natural language processing, information retrieval, knowledge
representation, automated reasoning, and machine learning technologies to the
field of open domain question answering.[2]
• The key difference between QA technology and document search is that document
search takes a keyword query and returns a list of documents, ranked in order of
relevance to the query (often based on popularity and page ranking), while QA
technology takes a question expressed in natural language, seeks to understand it
in much greater detail, and returns a precise answer to the question.
• In recent years, the Watson capabilities have been extended and the way in which
Watson works has been changed to take advantage of new deployment models
(Watson on IBM Cloud) and evolved machine learning capabilities and optimised
hardware available to developers and researchers. It is no longer purely a question
answering (QA) computing system designed from Q&A pairs but can now 'see',
'hear', 'read', 'talk', 'taste', 'interpret', 'learn' and 'recommend'.
• The system was written in various languages, including Java, C++, and Prolog, and
runs on the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 operating system using the
Apache Hadoopframework to provide distributed computing.
• The IBM team provided Watson with millions of documents, including dictionaries,
encyclopedias, and other reference material that it could use to build its
knowledge.
• The IBM team provided Watson with millions of documents, including dictionaries,
encyclopedias, and other reference material that it could use to build its
knowledge.
• On July 29, 2016, IBM and Manipal Hospitals[103][104][105](a leading hospital chain in
India), announced launch of IBM Watson for Oncology, for cancer patients. This
product provides information and insights to physicians and cancer patients to help
them identify personalized, evidence-based cancer care options. Manipal Hospitals
is the second hospital[106] in the world to adopt this technology and first in the
world to offer it to patients online as an expert second opinion through their
website.[103][107]
• On January 7, 2017, IBM and Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance entered into a contract
for IBM to deliver analysis to compensation payouts via its IBM Watson Explorer AI,
this resulted in the loss of 34 jobs and the company said it would speed up
compensation payout analysis via analysing claims and medical record and increase
productivity by 30%. The company also said it would save ¥140m in running
costs.[108]
• It is said that IBM Watson will be carrying the knowledge-base of 1000 cancer
specialists which will bring a revolution in the field of healthcare. IBM is regarded
as a disruptive innovation. However the stream of oncology is still in its nascent
stage.
Chatterbot[edit]
• Watson is being used via IBM partner program as a Chatterbot to provide the
conversation for children's toys.[114]
Building Codes[edit]
• In 2015, the engineering firm ENGEO created an online service via the IBM partner
program named GoFetchCode. GoFetchCode applies Watson's natural language
processing and question-answering capabilities to the International Code Council's
model building codes.[115]
Teaching Assistant[edit]
• IBM Watson is being used for several projects relating to education, and has
entered partnerships with Pearson Education, Blackboard, Sesame Workshop, and
Apple.[116][117]
• In its partnership with Pearson, Watson is being made available inside electronic
text books to provide natural language, one-on-one tutoring to students on the
reading material.
Weather forecasting[edit]
• In August 2016, IBM announced it would be using Watson for weather
forecasting.[122] Specifically, the company announced they would use Watson to
analyze data from over 200,000 Weather Underground personal weather stations,
and data from other sources, as a part of project Deep Thunder.[123]
Fashion[edit]
• IBM Watson together with Marchesa designed a dress that changed the colour of
the fabric depending on the mood of the audience.
Tax Preparation[edit]
• On February 5–6, 2017, tax preparation company H&R Block began nationwide use
of a Watson-based program.

COMPETITORS-
Watson THINKS. Watson can EXPLAIN EXACTLY how he came up with an answer and WHY
he thinks it is correct. This is so far beyond machine learning, it is hard to explain if you
don’t understand what I am saying.

Microsoft Project Oxford


Project Oxford is Microsoft’s venture into the world of artificial intelligence and deep
learning. It takes in several key areas, including image, facial, text and speech recognition,
and hopes to implement the technology into its computer operating systems and
smartphone software.
Google DeepMind

What is it?

British tech company DeepMind Technologies looking to combine machine learning and
the pursuit of neuroscience was bought out by Google in 2014. Renamed Google
DeepMind and tasked with building the best general purpose learning algorithms in the
industry

Watson represents a first step into cognitive systems, a new era of


computing. Watson builds on the current era of programmatic computing
but also differs in significant ways. The combination of three capabilities
make Watson unique:
• Natural language processing - to help understand the complexities of
unstructured data which makes up as much as 90% of the data in the
world today
• Hypothesis generation and evaluation - by applying advanced analytics
to weight and evaluate a panel of responses based on only relevant
evidence
• Evidence-based learning - to improve based on outcomes to get smarter
with each iteration and interaction

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