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Watson
IBM's Watson computer does more than play Jeopardy and banter with Bob Dylan. It's on the cusp of analyzing sound signatures and other data related info.
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I was hoping to hear more about IBM's commercial deployments of it, since it always seem to be used as a "imagine the possibilities" type of prototype. That's interesting that the technology is open for anyone to innovate on and use though.
Ariella
1/21/2016 6:17:30 PM
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@Editoria43531 IBM has been pushing Watson's commercial deployment. Already 2 years ago, there was this article on 9 commercial applications: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/top-commercial-ibm-watson-jeopardy/story?id=21477280
mhhf1ve
1/22/2016 7:28:12 PM
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I recall Watson tech was also good a composing a whole cookbook based on old recipes.. and it somehow figured out other novel (and hopefully appetizing) dishes.
Formulation help to optimize recipes --or shampoo/perfume/etc ingredients-- could be an interesting and very tangible way to demonstrate Watson's abilities, but I'm not sure how many people would immediately trust the taste of food if they were told a computer came up with the recipe.
mhhf1ve
1/22/2016 7:45:11 PM
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IBM isn't the only big tech company opening up "deep learning" software. Google, Facebook, OpenAI, Microsoft and more are all opening up their AI platforms to get more developers to use and push this tech forward.
Cognitive computing is already doing sigificant commercial tasks (Facebook newsfeed, Google search engine results, Siri, Google Now, Cortana, etc), but many people don't think about these tasks as artificial intelligence because it's not doing things that humans really do... yet. But when human-based concierge services can be replaced with computerized versions.. the line for what a "human task" is will blur. (And Amazon's Mechanical Turk might not be composed of as many humans as we think.)
Re: Watson
I was an IBMer at the time when IBM started big with Watson. I would say the company didn't reach the heights as anticipated with Watson. IBM was surely struggking two years ago. I recall reading an article in Wall Street Journak that time.
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IBM is gearing up with Cognitive Computing. Earlier this month the CEO announced its next big bet - Cognitive Solutions, which is the prowess of its IOT cloud and watson. It is bigger than AI and in fact AI could just be one of the components.
Here is an inresting read.
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/ces-2016-ibm-one-ups-ai-with-cognitive-solutions-rometty-declares-dawn-of-new-era/,
mhhf1ve
1/23/2016 3:51:38 AM
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Re-branding AI sounds like a good idea since the field of artificial intelligence has never lived up to the hype. The goalposts for achieving AI have moved further and further over the years, so it's only fair to start changing the names of the milestones until the "strong AI" folks succeed.
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Ditto, I think for VR.
When there are new products in the area of advanced, not-quite-there technologies like AI and VR, they are always enormous disappointments because of what we have been promised AI, VR, etc. really are supposed to be. A rebranding is in order -- until the day we have true AI, true VR, and so on.
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@Mike: Don't forget the fact that Watson can cook and come up with nifty recipes! ;)
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