IBM Watson’s Next Venture

Re:IBM Watson’s Next Venture by bluedino on Thursday November 14, 2013 @04:35PM (#6735778)

Why haven't Google, Microsoft, etc built a similar machine to Watson and play a fully-computerized version of Jeopardy? Ken Jennings optional.

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Re:IBM Watson’s Next Venture by jahewson on Thursday November 14, 2013 @07:19PM (#6736805)

Because they aren't selling supercomputers?

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Re:IBM Watson’s Next Venture by wmf on Thursday November 14, 2013 @07:32PM (#6736899)

I would estimate that Google and Microsoft each operate more servers than IBM and they are definitely in the analytics business. (I consider Watson more analytics than HPC.)

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Re:IBM Watson’s Next Venture by utopkara on Thursday November 14, 2013 @08:52PM (#6737200)

Not true. Watson style analytics requires HPC, the kind that Google and Microsoft do not (need to) build. Although, that might change with time as (cheaper) computers get faster.

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Re:IBM Watson’s Next Venture by Queue29 on Thursday November 14, 2013 @05:23PM (#6736113)

Because it's hard?

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