Building Watson
CSC 261 - Artificial Intelligence - Weinman
Answer the following questions. Record your answers in your Reading
Journal.
- Identify what you believe is the most important or significant
contribution of Watson. Briefly explain your selection.
- Identify what you believe is the most critical limitation
of the Watson system. Briefly explain your selection.
- Identify the figure (excluding 6, 9 and 10) you find most
surprising or illuminating for motivating the system's development.
Briefly explain your selection.
- Is DeepQA/Watson primarily
- a significant advancement in artificial intelligence, or
- a notable achievement of systems engineering?
Explain your position.
- Identify the sentence, section or concept from article that remains
the most confusing to you. Briefly explain what you find confusing
about it.