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What is IBM’s Watson

Artificial intelligence system originally designed to showcase AI efforts at IBM by competing in the Jeopardy game. After winning Jeopardy in 2011 against the then-current champions, Watson was marketed by IBM for applications in medicine, customer service and general problem solving. Currently, Watson is being developed into a general purpose AI system that has been opened to a community of beta tester. Learn more in: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Personal Assistants on Marketing

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