WASHINGTON (7News) — Do you remember Watson from Jeopardy? IBM’s Watson is all grown up now and the technology is being used behind the scenes for everything from sporting events to government.

(This program is no longer available for streaming.) Jeopardy! challenges even the best human minds. Can a computer win the game? "Watson," an IBM computing system, is gearing up for a first-of ...

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's Watson computer -- best known for having competed successfully with human players in the TV quiz game Jeopardy -- is building its knowledge-base for its first 'serious' uses, in the medical ...

Watson, enters domains like doctoring that were long considered the sole purview of humans, the disbelief sounds much the same. "That's the Jeopardy-playing computer - it's not going to solve ...

As of early January 2025, "Jeopardy!" has been stumping contestants and audiences alike with more than 539,700 clues over the ...

On the backend of the computer is IBM‘s SONAS General Parallel File ... are stepping on each other as they also update information after a Jeopardy show. During the show, Watson is read-only – meaning ...

Among his contributions was the work Kelly and his team accomplished in AI and cognitive computing with Watson, which he joined in the computer’s public debut on the game show Jeopardy!

If a person has access to a computer or mobile phone ... "all the world's general knowledge," which is what Watson tried to learn for Jeopardy. And it's getting "smarter" every year.