If nobody’s perfect, same goes for computers. Big Blue’s digital dynamo Watson may have handily defeated its human rivals this week on the Jeopardy! challenge, but it made some major errors along the way. IBM’s engineers have b…
For Watson, it was elementary. IBM’s mighty supercomputer has landed the title of new Jeopardy! champ. No matter how hard Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings — the two human contestants pitted against the machine — tried, they were …
IBM’s Watson supercomputer wasn’t The Terminator. But it did easily beat out two human champions in the first game of a much-anticipated Jeopardy! showdown between man and machine. The event is also proving to be a ratings winn…
Brandishing hardware and software optimized for understanding the nuances of natural-language questions, Big Blue’s ultra-brainy machine is preparing to face two flesh-and-blood champions of the TV game show. And if it also bri…
IBM reported earnings of $2.82 per share for the third quarter, compared with $2.40 a year ago. Analysts were expecting EPS of $2.75, according to Thomson Reuters. Global services revenues of $9.5 billion were well below the $1…