{"id":9805,"date":"2014-01-11T13:54:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T21:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9805"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:18:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:18:00","slug":"ibms-artificial-intelligence-problem-or-why-watson-cant-get-a-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/ibms-artificial-intelligence-problem-or-why-watson-cant-get-a-job","title":{"rendered":"IBM\u2019s Artificial Intelligence Problem, or Why Watson Can\u2019t Get a Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"byline\"><span class=\"byline-text\">By <a itemprop=\"name\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/authors\/911-drake-bennett\" rel=\"author\">Drake Bennett<\/a> \u2014 BloombergBusinessWeek<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IBM's Artificial Intelligence Problem, or Why Watson Can't Get a Job\" alt=\"The IBM computer system known as Watson\" src=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" data-image-id=\"262709795\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What if we built a super-smart artificial brain and no one cared? <span class=\"ticker_wrap\"><span itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Corporation\"><span itemprop=\"name\">IBM<\/span><\/span> (<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"http:\/\/investing.businessweek.com\/research\/stocks\/snapshot\/snapshot.asp?ticker=IBM\" data-symbol=\"IBM\">IBM<\/a>)<\/span> is facing that possibility. According to the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>, the company is having a <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702304887104579306881917668654\" target=\"_blank\">hard time<\/a> making money off of its <em>Jeopardy<\/em>-winning supercomputer, Watson. The company has always claimed that Watson was more than a publicity stunt, that it had revolutionary real-world applications in health care, investing, and other realms. IBM Chief Executive Officer Virginia Rometty has promised that Watson will generate $10 billion in annual revenue within 10 years, but according to the <em>Journal<\/em>, as of last October Watson was far behind projections, only bringing in $100 million.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2014-01-10\/ibms-artificial-intelligence-problem-or-why-watson-cant-get-a-job\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Drake Bennett \u2014 BloombergBusinessWeek What if we built a super-smart artificial brain and no one cared? IBM (IBM) is facing that possibility. According to the Wall Street Journal, the company is having a hard time making money off of its Jeopardy-winning supercomputer, Watson. The company has always claimed that Watson was more than a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1502,1523,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-data","category-computing","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9805","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47297,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9805\/revisions\/47297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}