Three years after its artificial-intelligence engine Watson made its high-profile win on Jeopardy!, IBM is adapting the technology as it seeks practical commercial uses, an IBM executive explained yesterday at EmTech, a conference organized by MIT Technology Review.
The original version of Watson was built around a question-and-answer format optimized for the game show, but that turned out to be “just the first building block” in an emerging artificial-intelligence system, said Mike Rhodin, senior vice president of the IBM Watson Group.
Image: Michael Rhodin speaks with MIT Technology Review’s editor in chief Jason Pontin yesterday at EmTech. - http://www.technologyreview.com
