Artificial intelligence · 2011
Watson wins Jeopardy!
IBM's question-answering system beats the two greatest Jeopardy! champions.
Watson combined hundreds of statistical NLP and retrieval components on 2,880 processor cores to defeat Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. It was a milestone in open-domain question answering, though its later commercial health products underdelivered.
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