Where Does Watson Go From Here? First Stop: Healthcare

We all saw what Watson did last night, but now the question becomes: what now? So what that IBM created an artificial intelligence that was able to answer a few trivia questions? (That's a massively simplistic way of looking at Watson, and discounts the incredible capabilities of the human brain and discounts the complexity of having to interpret human language with off-the-shelf hardware and finely tuned software.) Is there an end-game here? Maybe ?end-game? is too strong phrase to use, but IBM has announced a deal with Nuance Communications to ?explore, develop, and commercialize the Watson computing system's advanced analytics capabilities in the healthcare industry.?

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