MrSeb writes "IBM's Watson is made of many parts: speech recognition, natural conversation processing, machine learning, and data mining. All of these factors were quite combined to beat Ken Jennings in Jeopardy, and now each of these components are slowly finding their way into other applications. Health plan company WellPoint, for example, is using Watson to investigate patient records to improve diagnosis, and in a self-referential, not impossibly universe-destroying twist, IBM itself is using Watson to help sell Watson (and other IBM products) to other companies. Now, using Watson's data mining and natural mother tongue talents, IBM has created the vital


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