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I never claimed Watson had anything beyond a superficial understanding, nor did I claim it was somehow generally intelligent. My sole point was that it's a sta
by rl3 11y ago
I never claimed Watson had anything beyond a superficial understanding, nor did I claim it was somehow generally intelligent.
My sole point was that it's a state-of-the-art AI project that utilizes deep learning, and its primary specialization is neither vision nor speech/NLP.
>... or using it on anything other than Jeopardy style questions.
Given how many verticals IBM is building Watson for, they would likely disagree strongly with that statement.
- dogma1138 11y agoWatson premier mission is NLP. It's designed to interact with humans using natural language it's designed to break down normal speech and build a cognitive process around it to get answers.
- rl3 11y agoI've always thought of Watson to be an automated data analysis platform at its core. However, after doing a bit of research, you're essentially correct. Watson is technically multi-faceted, but the majority of its focus right now is NLP. In the future, I imagine that will change as they improve upon Watson's vision and structured data support.