IBM Was Here
Watson, and his uncanny ability to answer anything from trivia to critical medical inquiries, came from a patented IBM innovation.
(Thanks for the photo Stefania!)
11 years ago
20 over 20 | Patent no. 13
Another groundbreaker
from the last 20 years
“Who is Bram Stoker?” It’s the Jeopardy! game-winning answer given by a computer system named Watson, and the literary father of Dracula. While it was Watson’s win, the achievement really came on the shoulders of humans and their IBM US Patent No. 8,275,803, also known as DeepQA.
By distinguishing the contextual meaning of the words within a question, cognitive systems have become fluent in the intricacies of natural language—even our quips and puns—to give us better results than keywords alone.
11 years ago
One Smart Century:
No one earned more patents from 1993-2012. But in fairness, we did have 80 years to prepare.
12 years ago
