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Getting Watson to process a single natural language query in under three seconds with a reasonable degree of confidence was a huge technological accomplishment
by jarin 16y ago
Getting Watson to process a single natural language query in under three seconds with a reasonable degree of confidence was a huge technological accomplishment with today's technology.
I think it will probably be several years before the technology exists to be able to do the same thing with sub-second response times, on a much larger inconsistently-structured data set, with a higher degree of confidence, for millions of users.
- wlievens 16y agoI think he's just talking about a parser that can convert jarin's latest comment on YC news to something like site:news.ycombinator.com "jarin" sort-by:date (pseudo-syntax mine of course)
- nl 16y agoso.. It needs to understand that "jarin" is the username on a website called news.ycombinator.com, which allows comments, and these comments are different to the stories posted on the site. But of course "Obama's latest comment on CBS news" means the president's comments on the CBS TV channel's news service. An equally obviously "Brook's latest comment on Fukushima" would refer to a blog post by Barry Brooks on the Fukushima reactor problems on his blog http://bravenewclimate.com/ http://bravenewclimate.com/ Oh, and that "sort-by:date" bit needs to understand the difference between comment date, published date and any dates referenced in the comment or post. Easy! The truth is that currently Google doesn't do too badly on any of those queries, without any special parsing or "understanding".
- wlievens 16y agoI agree with all that, to be honest. Google does a good enough job.