It was initially developed for answering the questions on Jeopardy which was a quiz show and it was specifically designed for that. And it acquires the price money by competing with the previous winners.
Its first commercial use was in the year 2013 in the month of February. It was first used for utilizing management-related decisions in the treatment of lung cancer at a Center in New York
along with an insurance company. This was the first use of IBM Watson software.