IBM’s Watson supercomputer competed on live television against the two greatest human Jeopardy! champions, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, decisively defeating them. Running a complex question-answering architecture called DeepQA across a cluster of ninety IBM Power 750 servers, Watson parsed nuanced natural language, evaluated millions of unstructured documents in milliseconds, and calculated precise confidence scores, proving semantic computing could master human wordplay.
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