IBM Betting on AI, Quantum Computing, and Block Chain

I came across this article and thought I'd pass it along. It's interesting to see IBM focus on these areas. From the article:

...Watson’s greatest challenge has long been the vast amount of time and expertise necessary to prepare data for processing by the AI platform.

By leveraging deep learning technologies as well as increasingly mature, pre-trained industry ‘assistants,’ Watson has largely overcome these challenges.

The result: today, Watson is finding its way into a broad swath of IBM’s product line, as customers use AI-enhanced technologies for an increasingly wide range of business problems. AI has also infused the IBM Cloud, which is shaping up to be a general purpose ‘cognition platform.’

Article can be found here