What is IBM Watson?
by Bradley Nice, Content Manager at ClickHelp.com — professional technical writing tool
Recent tech news report that IBM’s Watson has already been employed as a dress designer, a chef, and a movie director. But what is it exactly?
IBM Watson is a question answering computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language based on cognitive computing.
Cognitive computing is a technique which is a set of several techniques:
- Machine learning is a technique where system tries to get better day by day by learning new things, just like we humans do.
- Natural language processing is a way of interaction with computers by means of a language that we speak daily (i.e. English).
- Artificial intelligence is the way by which computers perform some tasks which actually need human intelligence.
- Human interaction is the way in which computers can interact with humans, yes you can say natural language processing as a subset of human interaction.
- Reasoning is when system actually thinks like humans and produces answers to the questions.
To replicate a human’s ability to answer questions, Watson accesses 90 servers with a combined data store of over 200 million pages of information, which it processes against six million logic rules.
Flow chart for IBM Watson Work:
You might also want to watch official IBM’s video about how Watson works:
There’s also an official page:
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Bradley Nice,
Content Manager at ClickHelp.com— best online documentation tool for SaaS vendors
