The inventors of IBM’s game-changing Watson technology, which this week has competed and won versus human contestants in the game show Jeopardy, are now turning the power of this technology toward helping humans. The vast knowledge, the capability for deep analysis and its ability to find the right information could be a boon for humanitarian efforts.
On February 23, a meeting will take place in the Yorktown Heights, New York research lab to discuss ways that this smart computing system that thinks more like humans can be applied to civic, social, healthcare, cultural, and educational challenges. Learn more here.