Is Watson Smart Enough To Breathe Life Into IBM?

While the concept may be all the rage right now, artificial intelligence is decades old. The technology was first discussed during a conference at Dartmouth College in 1956. Initial deliberations included expectations that the technology would one day substitute anything a human brain can do.

Funding eventually dried up for the folks at Dartmouth, and it was IBM that was responsible for the revival of the layman’s fascination with the idea of man-made intelligence.

The first high-profile display of a clash of the two forms of intelligence was when IBM’s Deep Blue chess playing computer beat Russian chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov on February 10, 1996. Read More…