IBM’s Watson is learning its way to saving lives. 
[culture / technology / innovation / creativity]

IBM’s Watson is one of the best pieces of advertising I’ve seen in my lifetime. IBM wanted to show people just how good their technology was, so they made a super smart computer. That consistently won Jeopardy. (Yes, really.) Now they’re sending Watson to hospitals, creating fake problems and seeing if Watson comes up with the same solution as real doctors. After Doctors input certain information, the computer filters the information through algorithms and then suggests solutions with varying levels of confidence. Oh, and it keeps learning. So in a few months, or even a few years it will be even smarter. It can learn and share knowledge from across the world! This is the part of the future I’m excited about.