Watson won 'Jeopardy,' but IBM is not winning with artificial intelligence

On a February evening in 2011, Watson--a supercomputer with artificial intelligence created by International Business Machines Corp.--made history when it beat humans in a game of cognitive intelligence. These were longtime "Jeopardy" champions, deemed among the most intelligent human contestants to ever grace the game show stage. The Watson win was a major win for IBM IBM, -2.51% at the time, underscoring its transition to a new-age technology company with artificially-intelligent computers. It sent a clear message that IBM was no longer an aging legacy hardware company crippling under newer competition, but a bellwether of innovation yet to come in the realms of AI and big-data analytics. Read also: Is hyperconvergence the next big thing in tech?