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7 facts from 4 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2011
IBM's Watson AI system won the quiz show Jeopardy in 2011.
“Watson, the company's famous A I supercomputer, won Jeopardy in 2011, but since then, as far as most of us are concerned, it's been mostly ads during football games and not a lot else.”
2011
IBM built Watson in 2011 to show that AI could handle natural-language questions, including winning the game show Jeopardy.
“In 2011, we wanted to prove that A I can do and solve problems that were unimaginable.”
Undated
Krishna says IBM's Watson effort failed partly because it targeted healthcare, the hardest industry, with monolithic applications.
“we unfortunately picked the vertical that is the hardest health. That was the mistake.”
Undated
Arvind Krishna says IBM's Watson winning Jeopardy woke the world up to AI and spurred other companies to invest heavily.
“I think when we, uh, won Jeopardy with Watson, I think it woke the world up.”
Undated
Krishna says one Watson mistake was entering healthcare, where IBM had few salespeople who dealt with doctors or the FDA.
“Mistake number three, how many IBMers sell to doctors, and how many of those IBMers deal with the FDA?”
Undated
Arvind Krishna said IBM's Watson winning Jeopardy woke the world up to AI's capabilities.
“when we uh won Jeopardy with Watson, I think it woke the world up because I think for the first time in a long time, AI started doing something people thought it could not do.”
Undated
Arvind Krishna said IBM's Watson mistakes included building monolithic applications and choosing healthcare, a hard domain.
“we wanted to make a monolithic application. Mistake number one, mistake number two, we picked a domain, which is perhaps the hardest of them all, which is health.”
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