I doubt that there will be many, if any, implications. As a narrow AI system Watson is unlikely to have wider applicability or scalability. It's the classic d

I doubt that there will be many, if any, implications. As a narrow AI system Watson is unlikely to have wider applicability or scalability. It's the classic dilemma of narrow AI. People asked similar questions after the famous Kasparov defeat to Deep Blue. That event did have implications for chess players, but not much beyond that.