. to analyze natural language, identify sources, find and generate hypotheses, find and score evidence, and merge and rank hypotheses.” It had access to 200 million pages of information, including the full text of Wikipedia, but it was not online during the contest. The difficulty of the challenge is illustrated by the answer, “A long, tiresome speech delivered by a frothy pie topping” to which the target question (which Watson got right) was “What is a meringue harangue?” After the game, the losing human contestant Ken Jennings famously quipped, “I for one welcome our new robot overlords.”
