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David Ferrucci: IBM Watson, Jeopardy & Deep Conversations with AI

Lex Fridman Podcast

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How Did Prior Approaches to Language Understanding Fail?

There were lots of hard aspects to it. I said, we're not going to actually understand language to solve this problem. We are not going to interpret the question and the domain of knowledge that the question refers to in reason over that answer these questions. At the same time, simple search wasn't good enough to confidently answer with this, you know, a single correct answer. The approach looked promising. And we continue to improve our ability to handle that problem throughout the project.

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