One conversion on cnbc said that Watson had 16 TB memory.

I guess IBM gets a quantity discount. I wonder what operating system is able to have that as main memory or was it set

up as a 'memory disk' like we had in the old dos days.

----- Original Message -----

From: "Michael Madigan" <mmadi10699@yahoo.com>

To: "ProFox Email List" <profox@leafe.com>

Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 10:54 AM

Subject: Re: [NF] Jeopardy and Watson

Wait til they teach Watson to lie.

--- On Wed, 2/16/11, Ricardo Aráoz <ricaraoz@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Ricardo Aráoz <ricaraoz@gmail.com>

> Subject: Re: [NF] Jeopardy and Watson

> To: "ProFox Email List" <profox@leafe.com>

> Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2011, 12:30 PM

> On 16/02/2011 11:07 a.m., Stephen

> Russell wrote:

> > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Jerry Foote<jerryf@footegroup.com>

> wrote:

> >> As I understand Watson is passed a question in the

> form of a text string. A

> >> number of questions come to my mind.

> >> 1) When does Watson get question? The question is

> spoken so the time between

> >> when the sting is sent and the reader finishes

> speaking gives Watson all

> >> that time to look up results.

> >> 2) Are questions phrased exactly as they appear in

> lookup tables?

> > ------------

> >

> > 3) Does Watson have to fire a mechanical response to

> signal in the answer?

> >

> > #2 I heard that it gets the same Q.

> >

> > It first dissects the "Answer" to attempt to gain how

> to query. Is

> > the Question about Literature, artists, places,

> history. It then does

> > multiple queries and scores the results to determine

> the best

> > "Question" and provide that winner.

>

> Ok, but remember... it is not about a bear dancing well, it

> is about a

> bear dancing.

>

>

>

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