Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Watson supercomputer will have the Portuguese version – TVI24

The supercomputer processing and data validation and recognition of natural language, named Watson, will have a version in Portuguese. The announcement was made Tuesday by the president of IBM Portugal. It’s a supercomputer why? Its popularity came when he defeated humans in a game of questions and answers of American television, “Jeopardy.”

The fact that you have a version in Portuguese means in practice that the computer “will understand Portuguese and can communicate with humans in Portuguese,” he explained to Lusa António Raposo de Lima, on the sidelines of the conference on cities of the future.

Raposo de Lima pointed out that there are other languages ​​most spoken in the world, but that the “Portuguese comes first and it is no accident.” “You will certainly see that with the Portuguese ecosystem that is very recognized in corporation (company). There are other countries that speak Portuguese and has to do with roadmaps (paths) that are defended and approved. ”

The choice of Portuguese for Watson, which processes the data more like a human rather than a computer, must be a “proud” to be recognized that the “Portuguese is an absolutely irreplaceable heritage» welcomed responsible.

The project will have its developments and the “coming months” if you have to announce something new, especially in a sector, further added.

Beginning in medicine, Watson works after you dial the wonder and the tool creates the following results that explain why certain things happen and it probably will. “This information is available on the terminology that is commonly used in the business world, allowing professionals to interact with the results and post new questions,” according to IBM data.

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