IBM Watson

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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Watson is a computer system designed by IBM to tackle general knowledge style queries. It combines natural language processing, machine learning and rapid access to large quantities of text from encyclopaedias, news feeds and other human-readable data sources. Watson is famous for defeating human contestents in the US general knowldge TV quiz show in 2010. Since then it has been adapted for other domains including medical information.

Used in Chap. 1: page 7; Chap. 17: page 280; Chap. 24: page 402

Also known as ibm's watson, Watson (IBM)