IBM's Watson

 IBM (International Business Machine) has been working on a project on "Watson." Watson is an artificially intelligent computer system capable of answering questions in a "natural language." It is designed to learn from examples, understands requests and questions that are being asked, and it can read the internet and other database to find answers. Watson first became famous when it won the game Jeopardy against human players in the U.S. in 2011. IBM recently announced that Watson would be working with the Japanese company Softbank to make apps. Softbank is one of the third largest wireless telecommunication network in many Asian internet companies. Thanks to this company, the Watson driven apps could start appearing in a number of things Japanese people use. Watson could hopefully help with banking, insurance, health care, and auto industries. The bankers are hoping that Watson will eventually get put into a robot named Pepper. Pepper is already programed to read people's emotions, from facial expressions to the tone in someone's voice. Watson still has a few things that it needs to learn, like the Japanese culture and language. That's the next step in making Watson a helpful Japanese banker.

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