• Watson as it aims to commercialize cognitive computing and make its Watson Group a growth driver

• Jeopardy's quirk is that instead of  the quizmaster setting questions and contestants providing the answer,  the quizmaster provides the answers, known as 'clues' in Jeopardy-speak,  to which contestants provide a question.
• The  system today compared to the Jeopardy system is approximately 240  percent faster and it is one-sixteenth the size. The system that was the  size of a master bedroom will now run in a system the size of the  vegetable drawer in your double-drawer refrigerator."
• Jeopardy  Watson had one task – get an answer, understand it, and find the  question that went with it.
• Watson had to be retooled for a scenario where tens,  hundreds, however many, clinicians would be asking questions at once, and  not single questions either – complex conversation with several related  queries one after the other, all asked in non-standard formats.

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