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Watson may be overhyped, but it isn't a replacement for off the shelf machine learning algorithms. Watson is more like a search engine that takes advantage of a
by Houshalter 12y ago
Watson may be overhyped, but it isn't a replacement for off the shelf machine learning algorithms. Watson is more like a search engine that takes advantage of a lot of natural language processing. It is for answering questions in natural language and searching through huge amounts of literature automatically.
- fiatmoney 12y agoSo, like Solr? I don't mean to be glib; and I do understand that "answering natural language questions" is distinct from "search engine". But I have the feeling that it's a capability distribution that is much more impressive in the context of a full-court IBM sales pitch to an executive who saw it on Jeopardy once and wants to get in on this machine learning thing that everyone's talking about, than as a tool used by experts to do a task or set of tasks better. Their shameless press release marketing isn't exactly dispelling that notion.
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