The New South Wales government has spent less than $13m of its $50m rescue package for arts organisations hit by the Covid-19 shutdown. When the scheme was first announced almost six months ago, the NSW government said the $50m Rescue and Restart funding would be distributed in two rounds. With the second round of grant applications now open to access $30.1m, it is not clear how almost $7m from the NSW government’s emergency scheme is being.
Who do you know who is an expert at chess, speed reads, has a photographic memory, understands, reads and speaks many languages, has libraries of information at his fingertips, knows medicine, can read X-rays, can âdata mineâ customer data bases, can play and design music, can design dresses, can teach students and finally can always win at âJeopardyâ?
Of course, my loving wife would say âSteve,â but no, no, Steve must most humbly protest. â¦
Because itâs IBM Watson.
The IBM corporation was founded in 1911 in Endicott, New York, along the Pennsylvania border, as the Computing Tabulating Company, becoming International Business Machines in 1924 and then IBM in 1933. Its headquarters are now in Armonk, New York.