The IBM Watson supercomputer has garnered a lot of attention in recent years, but it's entering a particularly critical passage now. What happens next could influence the future paths of data analytics generally, and IBM specifically -- for better or for worse.
This week, IBM showed its plan to move Watson forward. Virginia Rometty, the company's chairman, president and CEO, said IBM would invest more than $1 billion in a new business group dedicated to commercializing Watson. That figure includes $100 million for venture investments to create an ecosystem of application developers and other business partners. The challenge, though, will be to take highly technical machine learning software from the lab -- and the game show milieu -- to the business mainstream.
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