{"id":3085,"date":"2012-03-19T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=3085"},"modified":"2012-03-19T05:05:51","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T09:05:51","slug":"watson-finds-a-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/watson-finds-a-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Watson Finds a Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/031012_0350_WatsonFinds1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It seems that even the beloved Watson has found a job for himself in this economy. Beth Jinks reports that Watson, of jeopardy fame, will soon be making billions of dollars, although he&#8217;s unlikely to have the opportunity to keep any of it. Instead the revenue will go straight into the pocket of its owner, IBM:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Watson&#8217;s ability to process natural language and comb through large datasets gives it a wide variety of applications in the business world.<\/li>\n<li>Health care providers have already been taking advantage of Watson&#8217;s services. Citigroup is the first financial services firm to do so.<\/li>\n<li>IBM believes that Watson is currently suited to manage portfolio risk. It monitors sources of information including conventional news sources but also sites like Facebook.<\/li>\n<li>Watson is expected to earn $2.65 billion in 2015.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more about some of Watson&#8217;s competitors, areas where the software still lags, and other applications for the loveable computer system click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-03-05\/ibm-s-watson-computer-gets-wall-street-job-one-year-after-jeopardy-win.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-03-05\/ibm-s-watson-computer-gets-wall-street-job-one-year-after-jeopardy-win.html\">Bloomberg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2012\/03\/assorted-links-387.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that even the beloved Watson has found a job for himself in this economy. Beth Jinks reports that Watson, of jeopardy fame, will soon be making billions of dollars, although he&#8217;s unlikely to have the opportunity to keep any of it. Instead the revenue will go straight into the pocket of its owner, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/031012_0350_WatsonFinds1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3085"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3228,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions\/3228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}