When clues are read by the host they are fed electronically to Watson, which parses the text, formulates hunches and checks all the evidence it can retrieve to test its hunches and then generates its five best answers, assigning each a confidence level before deciding whether to buzz in.
Decisions are not made on the basis of hunches and guess work, which is what the fast-track courts turned out to be.
He rejects the notion that hunches are second best, trading off accuracy for effort to achieve decisions that are "good enough" but not perfect.
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Doctors now diagnose and treat the ill through educated hunches and trial and error.
The freedom to turn thoughts, hunches, insights and dreams into realities not only makes America rich but also keeps it perpetually on the move, open to new things and to new ways of doing things.
Mr Kim is used to making investment decisions on the spot, based on hunches.
In the Ministry of Housing's dim halls that seem like a throwback to better days in the 1950s, Heba Abdelfadel, an architect and consultant for the division of the ministry that headed Cairo 2050, hunches over blueprints of a slum where she hopes to create wider roads in order to open the community to commerce.
There are parents like Larry Moore, who hunches over forms at the lost kids desk.
Bereft of guidance, doctors must therefore prescribe specific statins on the basis of little more than hunches or personal prejudice.
Yet customers may feel it unfair for retailers to charge customers differently for the same product, based on hunches about how much they can be stung for.
Wild-eyed tourists betting on drunken hunches might as well bypass the middleman and give their cash directly to the pit boss.
Above all, in the paralysingly awful global economic circumstances that have prevailed until now, they have been reluctant to back hunches by investing in expansion, and often unable to find the money to do so.
Researchers have been too willing to bet on hunches, he says, yet the technology to understand the complex biology of cancer is at hand.
Atiq hunches his shoulders and heads toward the building, where armed men waiting for him are squatting on either side of the main door.
One small proviso: the advantages of keeping your distance will come only if your hunches are as good as Mr Buffett's, your software as dominant as Mr Gates's or your films as popular as Mr Lucas's.
There's little we can definitively attach to that starry-eyed name so far, although we have our hunches: first and foremost is that it's the Jasper, the Snapdragon S4-touting spiritual successor to the Droid Charge.
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