Supercomputer Slayed 'Jeopardy!' Now It's Learning To Fight Crime

The supercomputer originally designed to win a game show is now learning how to fight crime. IBM announced on Tuesday that Watson, its artificial intelligence system, will be training to enhance cybersecurity. Watson already has some impressive accomplishments (for a supercomputer). Despite being a cookbook author,"Jeopardy!" winner, and health-care pioneer, it's still facing a steep learning curve when it comes to cybercrime, said IBM. "Even if the industry was able to fill the estimated 1.5 million open cyber security jobs by 2020, we'd still have a skills crisis in security," Marc van Zadelhoff, general manager at IBM Security, said in a press release. "The volume and velocity of data in security is one of our greatest challenges in dealing with cybercrime."