How IBMs Watson became a Jeopardy champion
Pitting computer named watson against two past champions.Today's practice run was just a glimpse of what's to come, in.It then had to parse the clues into different keywords and sentence fragments to find the statistically related phrases.It was able to process 500gb of data the equivalent of a million books per second.Ibm computer to take on 'jeopardy!'.The sources of data were stored in watson's ram for quick access.
The last time an ibm supercomputer challenged a human opponent to a televised duel, chess champion garry kasparov resigned his final match in tears.How ibm's watson became a jeopardy champion.Ibm's principal investigator, david ferruci, led the deepqa research project to create watson.Ibm watson is a cognitive system that combines information.