How a century-old tech giant is making a comeback with AI

MIT Technology Review   June 13, 2019
IBM relies on its research division with 3,000 researchers distributed across 12 locations, to stay on top of trends in emerging technology. For decades now, the company has engaged in an annual global technology outlook (GTO) process to create and adapt business units in light of what’s on the horizon. They decided AI is one of these technologies that’s on an exponential curve. Two years ago, IBM established the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab. This collaboration has focused IBM research again on solving significant basic-science problems in AI…read more