Visionary : Rob HIGH
Building a ‘Wiser’ Supercomputer :
Help Watson Tackle Humanity’s Biggest Challenges
IBM’s Watson is arguably the closest we have to an ‘intelligent’, ‘thinking’ computer. After its much-publicized win against human Grand Masters at Jeopardy! in 2011, the then-bedroom-sized supercomputer has shrunken to the size of three stacked pizza boxes with an 25-fold performance improvement. Its applications are fast-expanding from creating new recipes, streamlining businesses to revolutionizing healthcare systems and cancer research. Now its breakthrough cognitive capabilities accessible any via a cloud-based API, Watson is presenting us with an unprecedented opportunity to tap into our collective wisdom - to make it not only smarter but wiser, and together solve some of the biggest global challenges for humanity.