Read the article/press release carefully and note the donation of Watson resources to RPI is meant as a testbed for improving its capabilities. Nowhere will yo

Read the article/press release carefully and note the donation of Watson resources to RPI is meant as a testbed for improving its capabilities. Nowhere will you find an explicit demonstration by IBM of Watson doing math. I've actually worked with Watson, the question about math comes up quite often, and people have a lot of great expectations around the general notion of AI and problem-solving, even wondering if Watson can answer philosophical questions. But, today, Watson is not built to solve these kinds of problems. Watson's core capability is natural language processing--to discern the "what" of an English question, and to match it with germane texts in its corpus.