The specs posted for the Jeopardy system include 2880 cores and 16TB of RAM. That's not the size of system many of us every get to work with. The software, called DeepQA, is the core of the system and allows it to process vast amounts of data and make connections between the data to answer questions.
If we wanted to hire Watson as a conultant to help crunch numbers, what would his hourly rate would be?
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