7 Years After Watson, IBM's AI Turns Heads Again

Watson, an artificial intelligence system built by International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM), made headlines in 2011 by beating two champions on the game show Jeopardy! This initial version of Watson was built for answering Jeopardy!-style questions, backed by a vast database of information. Since then, Watson has been adapted to a wide variety of business applications, in industries such as healthcare and financial services. This article originally appeared in the Motley Fool. Soon after Watson's debut, IBM began work on another AI project.