[dclowd9901]

After reading this article, I realize now that Watson was this cute thing IBM was working on that they thought was novel, while Google was building machines that think, collaborate and formulate, period. They don't just answer questions: they take data and turn it into something we know how to breeze through.

I am truly astounded by how quickly we are accelerating through this information era.

[zinkem]

I didn't get that impression at all, I got the impression Google is using humans to do the thinking to make it easier for the computers to crank through the algorithms.

[rprasad]

Watson is a research product that aims to create artificial intelligence from the ground up, i.e., true artificial intelligence.

Google is merely processing massive data sets using manually crafted algorithims. This is a complete different project, which has little or nothing to do with artificial intelligence.

[magicalist]

> Google is merely processing massive data sets using manually crafted algorithims

That is what Watson is. There's not really any "true" artificial intelligence since the term is so poorly defined, but you could make a good argument that your description above fits humans pretty well, too.