IBM Watson

“There's a cookbook out also, and it's available on Amazon. Done, done with the Institute of Culinary Education. There's kind of 50 Watson-created recipes.”

“The right way to think of Watson is, And the engineering is, is a lot of cooperating little bots. So think of all of the Watson engines as having an NLP component which is trained according to the domain. So there isn't one Watson, there's a bunch of them.”

“The first people to call us after the Watson game, we expected the standard, I should say, really, really interesting IBM Customers, financial houses, didn't call us. In fact, oncologists, cancer doctors did.”

“Watson began life as a, 2300 power seven servers running a multi-processing version of Watson, all in memory, running on Linux. The original cluster is still in Yorktown, people still want to see it. We've improved it by a factor of about 1700, so now it's a l…”

“And we've done, I guess, three minority investments in startups who have decided to work with us.”

“I wouldn't assert that it replaces Hadoop. In fact, it's based on UEMA. It's an Apache project.”

“The goal is that, ah, eventually, by trying to understand the text directly, you can actually at least equal, all the information by Watson is in text, in free text.”

“So of course, in the end, right now, a system just based on Wikipedia is much worse than what can be done by Watson, using all the databases.”

“Now several years later, and sixty million dollars down the drain, that initiative failed. It actually failed.”