IBM, SoftBank to bring supercomputer to Japan
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IBM announced plans on Tuesday to bring its Watson supercomputer to Japan with mobile telecom group SoftBank, in a deal aimed at developing new applications for robotics and other services.
"IBM is teaching Watson to speak, and think, in Japanese, one of the most difficult languages for a computer to navigate because of its reliance on the complex diagrammatical alphabet known as kanji," a statement from the two companies said.
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