A representative of IBM introduces a brain-inspired computer during a release ceremony of world leading internet scientific and technological achievements at the 3rd World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, east China's Zhejiang Province, Nov. 16, 2016. (Xinhua/Xu Yu)
Watson supercomputer, IBM
IBM has been engaged in research into artificial intelligence for six decades.
Big Blue's latest innovation Watson, named after IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, is a cognitive computing machine, which uses machine learning, silicon-based computing and atomic storage to enable it to provide answers to questions like a high-functioning human.
IBM chairman of the Greater China region Chen Liming told the WIC audience that the supercomputer is expected to revolutionize health care as it can be used as a competent diagnostician for patients living in China's remote countryside.
Watson is capable of storing more medical information than doctors, and can make decisions based on data and history without cognitive bias.
