One application of watson is in medical diagnostics. They are working on other applications in finance, helping to develop drugs, predicting when industrial machines need maintenance and even coming up with novel recipes for tasty foods.
Basically, by reading and understanding large amounts of text, it can help you validate an hypothesis or even lead you to new hypothesis.
Basically, by reading and understanding large amounts of text, it can help you validate an hypothesis or even lead you to new hypothesis.