Will Watson Be the New Siri?

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Watson’s already making decent money, actually, in the enterprise market (that is, working for businesses, rather than consumers). Like a B.A. with a humanities degree flung into the real world, Watson has set aside its useless command of history and culture and has settled for a job in consulting, doing remunerative calculations of various sorts for Citigroup Inc. and for WellPoint Inc. (financial data for the former, cancer data for the latter). The main reason Watson isn’t already in our pockets, said Meyerson, is that he’s simply too smart--it takes more power to tap his brain than our smartphone batteries can currently muster. But the amount of power required is

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