#ALGORITHMS: "What's next for IBM's Watson?"

The stunning victory of IBM's Watson cluster computer over human champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter on the quiz show Jeopardy proved that artificial intelligence algorithms make the system capable of being an expert's advisor. Look for IBM to bring out a whole array of Watson-like helper applications or human experts over the next three years. R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog


Watson was the last contestant standing after having knocked the humans out cold.

Here is what my follow-up story for EETimes says about Watson: IBM is currently adapting Watson DeepQA architecture to commercial applications, where it will act as an advisor to human experts, thus defusing criticisms that it is not an expert itself (after Watson asserted during the Jeopardy game that Toronto was a U.S. city). By filtering Watson's advise through the expertise of a human—to eliminate such obvious mistakes—IBM hopes to apply Watson to a variety of fields, including healthcare, financial services, government-mandate management and retailing...
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