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Watson has become an unbelievable marketing tool for IBM.

• rudiger 16y ago
  Has become? From the beginning, Watson's purpose has been to advertise IBM's computers.
  • tel 16y ago
    And there's pretty little surprise that it worked! IBM's been here before (Deep Blue).
  • _delirium 16y ago
    I believe they also sell some of the tech behind this in their business-intelligence products, as a kind of extended semantic version of information extraction / information retrieval.
  • easp 16y ago
    You sure its purpose isn't to reinstantiate the cryogenically frozen brain of IBM's founder? Maybe that's just a bonus.
• RK 16y ago
  It's worked pretty well for Jeopardy too.