[PeterisP]

It was tuned for that particular task, but the core tech is much more general - the current main application for which IBM is selling the Watson platform is healthcare, which is "a bit" different from answering Jeopardy questions.

[123testaccount]

Not really. "A runny nose, a fever, body aches" "What are symptoms of flu the with 75% accuracy?"

That's dumbed down of course. It's probably more like "This much of this enzyme concentration in blood, that thing in urine" "What is a 17% chance of developing some condition in the next 5 years?"