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> Watson cannot do simple arithmetic Can you provide some sources? I assumed that if Watson could win at Jeopardy, it would be able to do simple math problems.
by vonklaus 12y ago
> Watson cannot do simple arithmetic
Can you provide some sources? I assumed that if Watson could win at Jeopardy, it would be able to do simple math problems.
Edit: I am not sure what you mean about Watson's inability to do arithmetic.
"The two major goals for IBM and RPI are to improve Watson's mathematical ability and to aid its recognition and interpretation of new words."
http://www.gizmag.com/ibm-watson-supercomputer-rpi/26038/ http://www.gizmag.com/ibm-watson-supercomputer-rpi/26038/
All accounts seem to allude to Watson's ability to infer natural language and problem solve, including arithmetic. I have not found anything explicitly saying it can not perform simple arithmetic.
- ta9090 12y agoRead the article/press release carefully and note the donation of Watson resources to RPI is meant as a testbed for improving its capabilities. Nowhere will you find an explicit demonstration by IBM of Watson doing math. I've actually worked with Watson, the question about math comes up quite often, and people have a lot of great expectations around the general notion of AI and problem-solving, even wondering if Watson can answer philosophical questions. But, today, Watson is not built to solve these kinds of problems. Watson's core capability is natural language processing--to discern the "what" of an English question, and to match it with germane texts in its corpus.