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David Ferrucci was inspired by the computer in Star Trek and sought to build a question-answering system like it. He named the system Watson and had it compete on the game show Jeopardy, where contestants must understand clues that contain puns, wordplay, and various meanings. After years of testing and improvements, Watson defeated human champions in 2011. To play Jeopardy, Watson analyzed information from various sources to find potential answers and calculate the probability of each, selecting the highest probability answer. Researchers are now working to apply Watson's question-answering abilities to medical diagnosis to help doctors by providing multiple diagnostic or treatment options.

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David Ferrucci was inspired by the computer in Star Trek and sought to build a question-answering system like it. He named the system Watson and had it compete on the game show Jeopardy, where contestants must understand clues that contain puns, wordplay, and various meanings. After years of testing and improvements, Watson defeated human champions in 2011. To play Jeopardy, Watson analyzed information from various sources to find potential answers and calculate the probability of each, selecting the highest probability answer. Researchers are now working to apply Watson's question-answering abilities to medical diagnosis to help doctors by providing multiple diagnostic or treatment options.

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WATSON

David Ferrucci has been long-time admirer of the computer on star trek, a popular science fiction
show. He once said that the computer in star trek is a question-answering machine. It understands
for your asking and provides just the right kind of response that you need. When is the computer
going to get to a point where the computer knows how to talk to you? That´s my question.

So Ferrucci, a researcher in artificial intelligence, set out to build one, he decided to build a system
that could play Jeopardy, a popular TV quiz show in the USA, and named his computer Watson,
Jeopardy presents a real challenge to computers, Jeopardy contestants must, of course, know a
great deal of information which is not a problem for a computer, but contestants must also
understand, pams, word plays, jokes and defendant meanings in the Jeopardy clues, in addition,
contestants must know a vast amount of trivia. For several years Ferrucci and his team tested and
improve Watson, finally in 2011 they believed Watson was ready. The quiz show organized a
special tournament of past champions to play against Watson. Although Watson didn´t get every
question right, in the end, he won the tournament. So, how did Watson do it? Watson first had to
be able to understand the clue reading natural English. Watson then reads and analyzes
information from many different sources, stored in its data banks. Watson typically found several
answers and calculate the probability of correctness for each answer. The answer with the highest
probability was the answer Watson gave, in synthetic but fairly natural English. Businesses and
public organizations also have a great deal of interest in question answering systems. Professor
Huber Chase of Columbia University’s Medical School is working with Watson designers to create a
system that will help doctors diagnose and treat patients. According to Chase, family doctors have
brought medical knowledge but may not have in-depth knowledge of a particular medical
problem, specialists have in-depth knowledge but typically lack brought knowledge, the new
Watson has both. In orally tests, the computer has done well and like the quiz show Jeopardy,
doctors denote what the one best answer, they want several diagnoses or treatments which
humans wouldn´t analyze. Chase says that medical systems by stand Watson could fundamentally
change doctor-patient relationships. Free in doctors to do what they do best. In Chase’s opinion,
what doctors do best, is communicate with the patient.

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