Watson Won Jeopardy, but Is It Smart Enough to Spin Big Blue's AI Into Green?
Watson Won Jeopardy, but Is It Smart Enough to Spin Big Blue's AI Into Green?
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
July 25, 20177m 29s
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Show Notes
In retrospect, there was much more at stake than a mere $1 million when IBM’s Watson computer faced off against two Jeopardy! champions back in 2011. The bot’s victory gave Big Blue a shot at conjuring up a new line of business at the perfect possible moment. A series of advances in image and speech recognition was about to trigger a frenzy of investment and excitement about the money-making potential of artificial intelligence.
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