Watson is an IBM supercomputer that combines artificial intelligence (AI) and sophisticated analytical software for optimal performance as a “question answering” machine. The supercomputer is named for IBM‘s founder, Thomas J. Watson.
IBM Watson is a technology platform that uses natural language processing and machine learning to reveal insights from large amounts of unstructured data
What Watson can do for you…
- Answer your customers’ most pressing questions
- Quickly extract key information from all documents
- Reveal insights, patterns and relationships across data
Watson analyzes unstructured data 80% of all data today is unstructured
This includes news articles, research reports, social media posts and enterprise system data
How Watson answers questions?
Watson first needs to learn a new subject before it can answer questions about it
First Watson learns a new subject
- All related materials are loaded into Watson, such as Word documents, PDFs and web pages
- Questions and answers pairs are added to train Watson on the subject
- Watson is automatically updated as new information is published
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