The computer Watson has won the two contestants on American TV show Jeopardy. For three days was more rapid and accurate than their opponents. A response rate gave it a huge advantage but committed a blunder, considering Toronto as a city in the U.S.. The IBM PC has won $ 77,147 (57,000 euros) in the contest.
But in this special edition was awarded first place with a million dollars (738,000 euros), which IBM go to charity. By their appearance and even his voice was clear that it was a human, but for those who have doubts and feared the usurpation of the brain by the machines, one of the engineers who participated in the creation of megaordenador IBM has beaten two pundits makes clear: "Watson has not been modeled on the human mind." Watson beat Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, and thanks to your system by running electricity and not blood, it boasted of its success, it was overwhelming.
Watson is the name of Sherlock Holmes assistant, but in reality is named after the founder of IBM, Thomas J. Watson. Their gestation period was four years. A total of 25 engineers worked on the design and assembly. His encyclopedic memory up 200 million digital pages, ie one million books.
The program provides answers and contestants must ask the pertinent question. In Watson's Square only saw a screen, wise and almost redicha. The computer is the size of 10 refrigerators, which are stored in racks 10 Model IBM Power 750 servers. Your RAM is 15 terabytes (that of a home computer is between 0.002 and 0.004 terabytes) that made 80 billion processes per second.
"Much of the challenge in creating a Watson was to invent a computer system that could understand human language and all its subtleties, nuances and contexts," said Eric Brown, manager of IBM Research Division Management System unstructured information, which has participated in its design.
"Watson uses a deep analysis to understand natural language. Reads large volumes of text to try to learn how to use the language and what is the meaning of words when they appear in context." Watson is the successor of Deep Blue, the famous supercomputer, also manufactured by IBM, which beat chess champion Gary Kasparov in 1997.
But the ultimate purpose of these devices goes beyond beating very smart people in televised contests. "Watson is proof that technology can help humans make better decisions by giving them access to accurate answers," says Brown. "A key capability of Watson is to combine information from various sources to assess the adequacy of a response.
This feature gives you many possibilities, such as medical diagnosis. "So far, what Watson has been wonderful to millions of people. Neither human contestants could with the computer. Jennings, the opponent number one, was 24,000 U.S. dollars (17,700 euros) and Rutter, 21,600 (almost 16,000 euros).
They were old acquaintances of Jeopardy. Jennings won in the past 74 consecutive programs and $ 2.5 million (1.8 million euros). Rutter is the contestant who much money was obtained in Jeopardy: $ 3,255,102 (2.4 million euros). "The truth is I wanted to win with all my heart because it was the equivalent to save the dignity of the species," Jennings joked after program, which was recorded in January at IBM headquarters in New York.
Alex Trebek, host of the program created in the sixties, the issue started yesterday admitting the obvious virtue of Watson's fast. Right. On the second day of program had proven the superiority with which the computer was able to press the button claiming the answer to the question being asked.
He did it in milliseconds compared to longer, but higher minimum, which took the two contestants to react . The speed allowed him to enjoy more opportunities, but had conspicuous failures. But his 90 servants made him able to learn from their mistakes on the fly and thus improve its responsiveness.
In other words, IBM has pursued the development of artificial intelligence. 
But in this special edition was awarded first place with a million dollars (738,000 euros), which IBM go to charity. By their appearance and even his voice was clear that it was a human, but for those who have doubts and feared the usurpation of the brain by the machines, one of the engineers who participated in the creation of megaordenador IBM has beaten two pundits makes clear: "Watson has not been modeled on the human mind." Watson beat Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, and thanks to your system by running electricity and not blood, it boasted of its success, it was overwhelming.
Watson is the name of Sherlock Holmes assistant, but in reality is named after the founder of IBM, Thomas J. Watson. Their gestation period was four years. A total of 25 engineers worked on the design and assembly. His encyclopedic memory up 200 million digital pages, ie one million books.
The program provides answers and contestants must ask the pertinent question. In Watson's Square only saw a screen, wise and almost redicha. The computer is the size of 10 refrigerators, which are stored in racks 10 Model IBM Power 750 servers. Your RAM is 15 terabytes (that of a home computer is between 0.002 and 0.004 terabytes) that made 80 billion processes per second.
"Much of the challenge in creating a Watson was to invent a computer system that could understand human language and all its subtleties, nuances and contexts," said Eric Brown, manager of IBM Research Division Management System unstructured information, which has participated in its design.
"Watson uses a deep analysis to understand natural language. Reads large volumes of text to try to learn how to use the language and what is the meaning of words when they appear in context." Watson is the successor of Deep Blue, the famous supercomputer, also manufactured by IBM, which beat chess champion Gary Kasparov in 1997.
But the ultimate purpose of these devices goes beyond beating very smart people in televised contests. "Watson is proof that technology can help humans make better decisions by giving them access to accurate answers," says Brown. "A key capability of Watson is to combine information from various sources to assess the adequacy of a response.
This feature gives you many possibilities, such as medical diagnosis. "So far, what Watson has been wonderful to millions of people. Neither human contestants could with the computer. Jennings, the opponent number one, was 24,000 U.S. dollars (17,700 euros) and Rutter, 21,600 (almost 16,000 euros).
They were old acquaintances of Jeopardy. Jennings won in the past 74 consecutive programs and $ 2.5 million (1.8 million euros). Rutter is the contestant who much money was obtained in Jeopardy: $ 3,255,102 (2.4 million euros). "The truth is I wanted to win with all my heart because it was the equivalent to save the dignity of the species," Jennings joked after program, which was recorded in January at IBM headquarters in New York.
Alex Trebek, host of the program created in the sixties, the issue started yesterday admitting the obvious virtue of Watson's fast. Right. On the second day of program had proven the superiority with which the computer was able to press the button claiming the answer to the question being asked.
He did it in milliseconds compared to longer, but higher minimum, which took the two contestants to react . The speed allowed him to enjoy more opportunities, but had conspicuous failures. But his 90 servants made him able to learn from their mistakes on the fly and thus improve its responsiveness.
In other words, IBM has pursued the development of artificial intelligence.
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