The gameshow winning supercomputer that couldn't stop saying 'bull****': IBM forced to wipe hard drive after machine downloaded an urban dictionary

An IBM supercomputer had to have its memory wiped because its programmers could find no other way to stop him swearing. Artificial intelligence Watson, which famously won Jeopardy! The website is a repository of English-language slang, and inevitably includes a range of profanities and insults completely inappropriate for polite conversation. How the mighty have fallen: Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter compete against IBM's Watson AI in a special edition of Jeopardy! in 2011. The machine had to have its memory wiped because it wouldn't stop swearing But Watson proved incapable of mastering the subleties of good mannered repartee and, after he began uttering obscenities, his masters were forced to delete the taboo vocabulary.