A year ago, IBM’s Watson supercomputer bludgeoned human supernerds Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in Jeopardy. Since then, Watson’s been putting its natural language interpretation skills to work for health care organisations, but now it’s coming for the money: As of yesterday, Watson works for Citigroup, one of the biggest financial corporations in the world.
Wall Street has been a mess of bodies and police for the past few days as Occupy Wall Street protests have clogged up lower Manhattan. But there were some congestion problems online too, as Yahoo was reportedly blocking emails attempting to organise the gathering.
It seems that Wall Street is finally an official part of a dark empire. Or at least that’s the impression I’m getting from seeing Darth Vader himself ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange earlier.
