IBM's Watson – the smartest computer out there? - Business Blog - Future Processing

IBM's Watson is simply a question answering system. As its creators claim, it can understand, reason, learn and interact by incorporating machine learning techniques, natural language processing and automated reasoning. Right now, its achievements may seem ordinary, however, when it first came into existence around 10 years ago, they were simply astonishing. Since Watson can analyse large amounts of data, it can detect anomalies invisible to the human eye. What is more, it has been built in such a way to understand questions asked in natural language and give simple, yet detailed answers.