It depends what level of fact checking is needed. Watson is well-suited for answering questions like “What year was Obama born?”, because the answer is unambiguous and also fairly likely to be found in a database. I would be very surprised if Watson could fact check a statement like “Putin has absolutely no respect for President Obama”, because the context needed to evaluate such a statement is not so easy to search for and interpret.
“Putin has absolutely no respect for President Obama”, because the context needed to evaluate such a statement is not so easy to search for and interpret.
I’m not sure that a statement like that has to tagged as a falsehood. I would be fine with a fact checker that focuses on statements that are more clearly false.
It depends what level of fact checking is needed. Watson is well-suited for answering questions like “What year was Obama born?”, because the answer is unambiguous and also fairly likely to be found in a database. I would be very surprised if Watson could fact check a statement like “Putin has absolutely no respect for President Obama”, because the context needed to evaluate such a statement is not so easy to search for and interpret.
I’m not sure that a statement like that has to tagged as a falsehood. I would be fine with a fact checker that focuses on statements that are more clearly false.