# Watson on Jeopardy

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**Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 8:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watson-on-jeopardy/256927/11 "2011-02-16T08:35:49Z")

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> [@Year end / Christmas Bonus...](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/year-end-christmas-bonus/39547/123):
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> It truly is amazing how it can take common language and interpret it.

Given enough data to work with for comparisons to get general rules from and enough processing power you can do a lot more than something this trivial.  
Now if they can get get it to pass a Turing test convincingly - that’d be something.

> Watson is the size of 8 refrigerators and has its own air conditioning system.  
> It is not linked up to the internet in any way, it stores all of its data in memory.

 ![http://peter.stillhq.com/jasmine/blog/1950s-computer.jpg](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/4/4/44f962c68c99df456290214cd233e3de01d5dccc.jpeg)

:rofl

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