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Jeopardy! The IBM Challenge
IBM's Watson http://www-943.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/ will start three consecutive days of Jeopardy! contests, arguably a benchmark of ultimate knowledge, against the show's two most successful and celebrated contestants, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. The showdown starts tonight! http://www.jeopardy.com/news/watson1x7ap4.php
Meet Watson:
* Workload optimized design
* 90 servers
* DeepQA software architecture
* Power7 System
* Advanced text-to-speech capability
"The grand prize for this competition will be $1 million with second place earning $300,000 and third place $200,000. Rutter and Jennings will donate 50 percent of their winnings to charity and IBM will donate 100 percent of its winnings to charity."
"Beyond Jeopardy!, the IBM team is working to deploy this technology across industries such as healthcare, finance and customer service."
It'll blow your socks off! Be there! It's instupituous!
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I'm sure they're looking at multiple petabyte/exabyte databases to store all of this information, with each "knowledge" entry stored with a non-trivial amount of contextual information to build associations and allow for faster searching. Trying to reproduce this with a simple google interface wouldn't be possible -- you'd want to recreate google, extra this sort of information from websites, and then store it all in a cluster of databases so you didn't have to worry about internet latency while building the answers. Effectively, you'd do exactly what they've done here.
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