IBM Watson
Question-answering AI system
IBM Watson is a suite of artificial intelligence services and tools developed by IBM, named after the company's founder Thomas J.
Watson.
It gained fame in 2011 by defeating human champions on the game show Jeopardy!, demonstrating natural language processing capabilities.
Watson now powers various enterprise applications in healthcare, customer service, and data analysis: The hospital uses Watson to help analyze medical images.
The name has become shorthand for IBM's AI ambitions generally.
- artificial intelligenceMachines mimicking human thought
- game showPrize-based TV competition
- supercomputerUltra-powerful computing system
- cognitiveRelating to thinking
- machine learningAlgorithms that improve from data
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- AIAI, machine learning, deep learning, algorithm, chatbot
- voice technologyspeech recognition, voice commands, virtual assistants, digital assistant, AI assistant
- AI CompaniesOpenAI
IBM WatsonKen Jennings
human intelligence · human brain · human cognition · lived experience · subject matter expert