Dr. David Ferrucci, Principal Investigator for the Watson project, provides background on IBM DeepQA architecture. Dr. Ferrucci explains why he and his team have chosen to undertake this momentous challenge – from his interest in teaching a computer to understand natural language to the potential impact this technology could have on different industries.
How Watson Works
“We are using information as it exists and making the computer smarter in analyzing that content to compute answers.”