IBM’s Watson Supercomputer Got A Job At An Australian Bank

The world’s most advanced thinking supercomputer has wiped the floor with the world’s greatest Jeopardy! champions, IBM’s Watson wanted a new challenge, so now it will be advising people how to invest their money over at ANZ Bank.

The AFR reports that Watson tech has made the leap into the financial space via a new app for its wealth management division that will advise people how they might invest their cash.

Watson analyses a problem, and using a massive set of data, advises the best decisions one could make out of that. Sometimes it gets it wrong, but the best thing about Watson is that it learns and provides better advice in the future.

Check out the full report to dive deeper into Watson. [AFR]


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