Jason Hook's shiny new blog...... :: IBMer Watson's future in Jeopardy

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I'm not familiar with the game of Jeopardy but Aunty reports that IBM has been building a new search/knowledge management technology called Watson. Watson's job is to consume a lot of information, 'understand' it's context and be able to apply the 'knowledge' it gains intelligently and confidently to complex problems.

Google on steroids& We'll see. Hopefully this is a big step forward in knowledge discovery technology and Watson wil help businesses discover information often deeply hidden on various systems. If it's to be a success it'll have to address a couple of issues:

Very few companies could afford Watson outright, I wonder if it will, eventually, be offered as service?
Knowledge has to be recorded if it's going to be useful

I'm not sure when the game will take place but keep an eye out for this epic struggle between human (and 74 time winner of the game) and frighteningly expensive and considerably less portable computer coming to a TV near you sounds like it's going to be an interesting battle.

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