The artificial intelligence system known to clean competitors' clocks at "Jeopardy" may soon gain the ability to "see" if IBM's (NYSE; IBM) plan to buy Merge Healthcare (NASDAQ; MRGE) (Chicago) for $1 billion goes through. IBM said the acquisition would combine Watson's advanced image analytics and cognitive capabilities with data and images obtained from Merge's medical imaging management platform. This would essentially advance Watson beyond natural language and give the health platform the ability to see, the company said. Read More
