IBM Watson offers $5m for an AI to save the world

Money out of the marketing budget?

And so IBM Watson's massive marketing push continues: this time with the launch of a $5m (3.4m) prize in an artificial intelligence competition that will run until 2020. Contenders - or perhaps their 'bots - will have to battle it out at a mainstage event at IBM's annual conference before the winner pockets their prize at the annual TED talk-fest."