{"id":29839,"date":"2016-09-05T12:47:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T19:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/a-look-at-ibms-watson-5-years-after-its-breathtaking-jeopardy-debut"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:18:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:18:13","slug":"a-look-at-ibms-watson-5-years-after-its-breathtaking-jeopardy-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/a-look-at-ibms-watson-5-years-after-its-breathtaking-jeopardy-debut","title":{"rendered":"A Look at IBM\u2019s Watson 5 Years After Its Breathtaking Jeopardy Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-look-at-ibms-watson-5-years-after-its-breathtaking-jeopardy-debut.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The year was 2012, and IBM\u2019s AI software <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/watson\/what-is-watson.html\" target=\"_blank\">Watson<\/a> was in the midst of its heyday.<\/p>\n<p>Watson beat two of Jeopardy\u2019s all-time champions a year earlier in 2011, and the world was stunned. It was the first widespread and successful demonstration of a natural language processing computer of its class. Combined with the popularity of Jeopardy, Watson became an immediate mainstream icon.<\/p>\n<p>Later in 2012, <a href=\"http:\/\/www-03.ibm.com\/press\/us\/en\/pressrelease\/39243.wss\" target=\"_blank\">IBM announced<\/a> one of the first major practical partnerships for Watson\u2014a Cleveland Clinic collaboration to bring the system into medical training.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/08\/10\/a-look-at-ibms-watson-5-years-after-its-breathtaking-jeopardy-debut\/?utm_content=bufferb79eb&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook-hub&utm_campaign=buffer\">http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/08\/10\/a-look-at-ibms-watson-5...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year was 2012, and IBM\u2019s AI software Watson was in the midst of its heyday. Watson beat two of Jeopardy\u2019s all-time champions a year earlier in 2011, and the world was stunned. It was the first widespread and successful demonstration of a natural language processing computer of its class. Combined with the popularity of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29839"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66337,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29839\/revisions\/66337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}