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1. How does Watson know to share only public data and not confidential data if it comes across it? How does it gather data?

2. Does it cache answers or does it try to "learn" and modify/improve the response each time?



1. Right now data comes from our customers (not shared) or public sources (shared). Watson does not decide on its own what is shared or not.

2. Watson can learn from feedback (i.e., a user grading the quality of an answer).


1. Watson has to be trained on a specific corpus of information. Each instance is it's own Watson, and needs to be trained. They say that each Watson starts off as a kindergartner. 2. Watson needs to be trained by an expert using sample questions and it learns from that.




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