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Tag Archives: watson
From Jeopardy! to Insurance – IBM’s Watson AI Hired by WellPoint For Medical Expertise
Ever feel like the people reviewing your claims at the insurance company are a bunch of faceless, mindless drones? Well [...]
Posted in AI, Longevity And Health, Video Central
Tagged ai, healthcare, ibm, insurance, watson, WellPoint
8 Comments
IBM’s Watson Will Take Center Stage at Singularity Summit 2011 in New York City Oct 15-16
Watson, Watson, Watson. Your computer wiles have really seduced all of us technophiles this year. Singularity Summit, the annual TED-style [...]
Posted in Singularity, Video Central
Tagged Ken Jennings, ray kurzweil, singularity summit, watson
3 Comments
Just Months After Jeopardy!, Watson Wows Doctors With Medical Knowledge
The trainee was sequentially presented the details of a fictitious patient: there’s an eye problem; vision is blurred; the family, [...]
Kurzweil Is Confident Machines Will Pass Turing Test by 2029 (video)
It continues to be a good Spring for Ray Kurzweil. Not only has the media been rather kind to him [...]
Posted in AI, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged 2029, ai, david orban, Ken Jennings, Long Bet, Mitch Kapor, ray kurzweil, singularity summit, turing test, watson
5 Comments
Paging Dr. Watson: AI Jeopardy! Soon To Be Physician’s Assistant
Will you ever be treated by Dr. Watson? Not Sherlock Holmes’s right-hand man, but the AI Jeopardy! champion who’s poised [...]
Posted in AI
Tagged AI Physician, columbia university, Decision Support, ibm, ibm watson, mayo clinic, Nuance Healthcare, Qualibria, University of Maryland, watson
16 Comments
It’s Showtime: IBM’s Watson To Make History On Jeopardy!
Today, February 14, 2011, IBM’s Watson computer system is slated to take on the world’s best humans in a televised [...]
Watch the Watson Computer Kick Jeopardy’s Ass (video)
Today is the day computers took over…game shows. In a brief exhibition match in upstate New York, IBM’s pure language [...]
IBM’s ‘Watson’ Takes on Jeopardy! You Can Challenge the Computer to a Trivia Duel
Back in 1997, IBM made history when its computer Deep Blue defeated Grandmaster Garry Kasporov in a game of chess. [...]
Posted in AI
Tagged Blue Gene, Clive Thompson, David Ferrucci, Deep Blue, DeepQA, ibm, jeopardy, language processing, New York Times, question answering system, watson
15 Comments
Boom! Question Answering Engines Take Off. IBM Sets Sights On Jeopardy, Wolfram Alpha
Boom! That is the sound skittering across the information industry landscape this week as IBM has suddenly stepped into the [...]
Posted in AI, Computer Interfaces
Tagged ibm, ibm watson, jeopardy, question answering engine, watson, wolfram alpha
2 Comments