An Overview what is IBM WATSON and how one can work with it.

1. IBM Watson
A NEW CULTURE TO THINK

2. Topic
 What is IBM WATSON?
 Watson – A Workload Optimized System
 About it & Why it is created..
 Architecture & process
 Achievement
 How we can use Watson!
 Prons & Cons
 References

3. What is IBM WATSON?
 Watson is a customized computer system designed by IBM researchers to
deliver a single, precise answer to a question processed in natural
language.
 Watson is a question Answering Computing System that IBM built to
apply advanced NLP, information retrieval, knowledge representation,
automated reasoning & machine learning technologies to be the field of
open domain question answering
 In Simple terms, we can say that the Watson is a super computer which is
used to give answer after processing the question asked or deliver in the
Human Language or Natural Language

4. Watson – A Workload Optimized System
 90 x IBM Power 750 servers
 2880 POWER7 cores
 POWER7 3.55 GHz chip
 500 GB per sec on-chip bandwidth
 10 Gb Ethernet network
 15 Terabyates of memory
 20 Terabytes of disk, clustered
 Can operate at 80 Teraflops
 Runs IBM DeepQA software
 Scales out with and searches vast amounts of unstructured
information with UIMA & Hadoop open source components
 Linux provides a scalable, open platform, optimized
to exploit POWER7 performance
 10 racks include servers, networking, shared disk system,
cluster controllers

5. About it & Why it is created..
 Project started in 2007, lead David
Ferrucci
 Initial goal: create a system able to
process natural language & extract
knowledge faster than any other
computer or human
 Jeopardy! was chosen because it’s a
huge challenge for a computer to find
the questions to such “human”
answers under time pressure
 Watson weighs the probability of his
answer being right – doesn’t ring the
buzzer if he’s not confident enough

6. Architecture

7. Achievement

8. How we can use Watson!
 Answer Retrieval
 News Intelligence
 Social Customer Care
 Text Message Chatbot
 Voice of the Customer
 Gallery

9. Prons & Cons
PRONS
 Parse textual data really well.
 Features for analyzing the textual data.
 No Skill Required To work with Watson.
Cons
 Not answers to the questions whose answers are not known
 Only Answer when 100% sure.

10. References
 https://twitter.com/IBMWatson
 https://www.trustradius.com/ibm-watson-analytics
 http://www.slideshare.net/suchitralotus/ibm-watson
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xcmh1LQB9I

11. Thank you
BY
Harshdeep Singh