IBM will invest $ 1 billion in a supercomputer

IBM said it intends to invest more than $ 1 billion in the creation of a new unit that will develop Watson (Watson). The technological corporation intends to extract as much profit as possible from using the capabilities of a supercomputer, which in the past competed in the television game-quiz Jeopardy with "live" people.

The new business will be headed by Microsoft's senior vice president of software solutions Michael Rodin. A venture fund with a capital of $ 100 million will also be created, which will finance the development of applications for Watson. The unit will be based in the city of New York and employ about 2,000 workers, the Reuters news agency reported citing IBM.

The supercomputer "Watson" with the artificial intelligence system is named after the founder and president of International Business Machines Thomas Watson. Understanding natural speech allows a machine to process information like a human being, to quickly analyze and interpret large amounts of data.

If before "Watson" occupied a space comparable in size to a bedroom for two people, then its current size is comparable to the size of three stacked boxes for pizza.

The decision to create a new division of IBM explains the high demand for cognitive computing.

Having reached a point of inflection reflecting an excessively high interest in technology, we realized that we need to accelerate development, "said IBM vice president Stephen Gold.

The research firm Gartner notes a serious leap in the processing and use of information by means of IBM. Analysts at Credit Agricole Bank forecast that by 2018 the system will generate more than 12 percent of IBM's annual revenue.

In 2012, the total revenue of IBM was 104.5 billion dollars.

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