The Corvus | August 2018
Funny thing is IBM initially developed
Watson to compete in the American
game show –Jeopardy and in 2011,
Watson competed and won on
Jeopardy against the TV quiz show’s
two biggest all-time champions who
were humans. This was a big deal
because computers had never been
good at finding answers. For instance,
search engines don’t answer questions
but rather they deliver thousands of
search results that match keywords.
University researchers and company
engineers have long worked on
question answering software, but
the very best could only comprehend
and answer simple, straightforward
questions like how many Champions
League trophies has Real Madrid won?
Watson does a remarkable job at
understandin