Feb 27
It’s a while since IBM’s Watson was put to work inventing recipes
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Feb 26
IBM is throwing open the cognitive computing power of Watson to mobile developers, setting up a new challenge to create apps that take advantage of the supercomputer’s natural language processing, … Continue reading
Jan 09
IBM just put the pedal to the metal on Watson’s crawl towards relevance. The company just announced a $1 billion investment, giving the supercomputer its own business division as well as an office in New York City’s Astor Place.
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Nov 14
IBM’s Watson question answering supercomptuer is an impressive bit of kit. The machine has competed very well against humans in many areas, including on the game show Jeopardy. IBM has announced a new API that makes the Watson question answering machine available as a service. That means by using the API, app developers can incorporate […]
Nov 14
Watson was always going to be more than just a successful game show contestant
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Oct 20
As part of what we can only assume is preparation for some very intense mad scientist Halloween costumes, IBM has announced a prototype computer that is both powered and cooled by an electrolyte liquid.
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Oct 15
While Obama might be having a hell of a time trying to reform healthcare, we perhaps shouldn’t worry too much—because IBM’s supercomputer Watson is now being used to fix America’s shortage of doctors.
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Mar 02
Super computer Watson can crush puny humans at Jeopardy. It can do a pretty bang-up job as a doctor. It can swear up a storm. Two of those aren’t easy for a normal person, but that’s not enough for IBM. IBM wants more. And part of it’s plan to push Watson to its limits should really get things cooking. Literally. More »
Feb 28
Watson ponders careers in cooking, drug research as IBM makes it earn its keep
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While mad game show skills are nice and all, IBM has started to nudge Watson toward the door to begin paying its own freight. After a recent foray into finance, the publicity-loving supercomputer has now brought its number-crunching prowess to the pharmaceutical and pastry industries, according to the New York Times. If the latter sounds like a stretch for a hunk of silicon, it actually isn’t: researchers trained Watson with food chemistry data, flavor popularity studies and 20,000 recipes — all of which will culminate in a tasting of the bot’s freshly devised “Spanish Crescent” recipe. Watson was also put to work at GlaxoSmithKline, where it came up with 15 potential compounds as possible anti-malarial drugs after being fed all known literature and data on the disease. So far, Watson projects haven’t made Big Blue much cash, but the company hopes that similar AI ventures might see its prodigal child finally pay back all those years of training.
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Source: New York Times
Feb 09
Everybody’s favorite clue-guessing computer Watson was always destined for more than just trouncing meatbags on Jeopardy. And though it spent a little of its time just hanging out and learning how to swear, Watson has now moved on to bigger and better things. “Dr”. Watson’s taking patients now, through a cloud-based medical application. More »
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