IBM has been a philanthropist when it comes to bringing the technologies to the world. The journey has been long, starting from a chicken chopper to punch card to mainframes and so on. The 100 year old company has added so many values for us. Now they are working on an artificial intelligence computer system named WATSON, who is capable to answer question posed in Natural Language. There is a secret behind the name as it is adopted from IBM’s first CEO Thomas J. Waston.
You know a secret? Watson was initially designed to participate in a Quiz Show called Jeopardy, in which it was the winner beating former champs Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings. Watson has access to 200 million pages of structured and unstructured content including full text access to Wikipedia.
Standing aside from other computing systems, Watson takes in data from all sorts of sources, from research reports to Tweets. All the information humans produce for other humans to consume. It has no restriction on memory or unstructured documents and can proves them in seconds.
Watson uses a systematic approach to compile the requested Data using methods like observe, interpret, evaluate and decide.
One of the core concepts driving Watson is its ability to interpret questions spoken in natural language. With the addition of the latest technologies The firm’s latest developments inside the big blue glass cabinet see Watson and the IBM-branded Watson Developer Cloud service gain additional intelligence in the form of advanced language understanding as well as speech and vision services.
According to IBM, “The goal is to have computers start to interact in natural human terms across a range of applications and processes, understanding the questions that humans ask and providing answers that humans can understand and justify.” It has been suggested by Robert C. Weber, IBM’s general counsel, that Watson may be used for legal research. The company also intends to use Watson in other information-intensive fields, such as telecommunications, financial services, and government. IBM Watson Developer Cloud, developers can now access and build with a collection of cognitive APIs and SDKs that allow apps to learn, reason, and consider context.
A brief video from IBM shows how WATSON exactly work.