"Watson" is cool, but I thought some of the clever hackers around here might know how to get something almost as cool (or cooler?) for less than the expected price of $1M USD for the hardware alone?<p>https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Watson_(artificial_intelligence_software)#Future_uses
Of course. Create a main guessing algo running on a single machine using data mining from the internet and former questions, using pattern matching and smart googleing.<p>If you got it, parallelise it and distribute it in a way like SETI.