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The Corvus | August 2018 Funny thing is IBM initially developed Watson to compete in the American game show –Jeopardy and in 2011, Watson competed and won on Jeopardy against the TV quiz show’s two biggest all-time champions who were humans. This was a big deal because computers had never been good at finding answers. For instance, search engines don’t answer questions but rather they deliver thousands of search results that match keywords. University researchers and company engineers have long worked on question answering software, but the very best could only comprehend and answer simple, straightforward questions like how many Champions League trophies has Real Madrid won? Watson does a remarkable job at understandin