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IBM Watson

  • Shashank Joshi
  • Mar 16, 2018
  • 1 min read



IBM Watson is AI base app which can read English. With the ability to read English it can summarise what's going on conversation. Watson gives you complete control on what is important for you. Watson was developed in IBM's DeepQA project by a research team led by principal investigator David Ferrucci. Watson was named after IBM's first CEO, industrialist Thomas J. Watson.

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. IBM Watson's former business chief, Manoj Saxena, says that 90% of nurses in the field who use Watson now follow its guidance.

Watson's current application includes Health care, Building codes, Teaching Assistant, Weather Forecast, Fashion and Tax preparation. This is complete software based system does not require any extra hardware assistant.

Watson parses questions into different keywords and sentence fragments in order to find statistically related phrases. Watson's main innovation was not in the creation of a new algorithm for this operation but rather its ability to quickly execute hundreds of proven language analysis algorithms simultaneously. The more algorithms that find the same answer independently the more likely Watson is to be correct. Once Watson has a small number of potential solutions, it is able to check against its database to ascertain whether the solution makes sense or not.

In short Watson is a pocket AI system as we can use it's mobile application.


 
 
 

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