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The Rise of Cognitive Business
October 6, 2015 | Written by: Dr. John E. Kelly III
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John E. Kelly III, Senior Vice President, IBM
By John E. Kelly III
When the original Watson won on the TV quiz show Jeopardy in 2011, it was one computer tucked away in a room at IBM Research. Now it’s in our cloud, available anywhere.
Back then, Watson consisted of a single software application powered by five core technologies. Today, it includes 28 cognitive services. Each represents a different mode of thinking–visual recognition, personality insights, relationship extraction and tradeoff analytics, to name a few. And more are on the way…
Read the full story on IBM’s new THINK blog.
IBM Senior Vice President, Cognitive Solutions and IBM Research
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