That day, IBM’s Watson supercomputer finished off a three-game shellacking of Jeopardy! champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Trailing by over $30,000, Jennings, now the show’s host, wrote out his ...

In January, President Obama handed the reins to Joe Biden to head a "moonshot" initiative to cure cancer, and a major step toward that end has just been made. At the National Cancer Moonshot Summit on ...

Remember the date. Because February 16, 2011, may likely go down in history as the day that human intelligence was surpassed -- or at least matched -- by the intelligence of computers and software ...

Just over five years ago, IBM’s Watson supercomputer crushed opponents in the televised quiz show Jeopardy. It was hard to foresee then, but artificial intelligence is now permeating our daily lives.

One year after IBM’s Watson defeated two of the greatest champions in Jeopardy history, the supercomputer is taking a “job” on Wall Street helping banking giant Citigroup analyze data. It would be ...

Three years after IBM began trying to turn its "Jeopardy"-winning computer into a big business, revenue from Watson is far from the company's ambitious targets. Spencer Ante reports. Photo: Getty. IBM ...

IBM plans to introduce technologies from its Watson computer, which beat humans on the game show “Jeopardy,” for information-discovery use in enterprises. The company hopes that Watson’s underlying ...

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — As smart as IBM’s Watson supercomputer may have seemed while defeating two former Jeopardy champions, it wouldn’t be able to hold a conversation with or speak intelligently to the ...