Disclaimer: this article is my own opinion and research and doesn’t necessarily represent IBM’s positions, beliefs,strategies or opinions. All information used is publicly available and non confidential. Please see my original post at https://consultingbydegrees.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/what-do-you-know-about-watson/
Hey!
A key buzzword round IBM and in the Cognitive world is ‘Watson’. Watson is a super computer which combines advanced Artificial Intelligence and analytical software for unprecedented performance as a “question answering” machine. Watson is named after IBM’s founder, Thomas J. Watson.
Basically, Watson pharses questions into different keywords and sentence fragments in order to find statistically related phrases. It then searches its extensive databases for results and answers the user’s question or input with high accuracy. The more you use Watson, the smarter it gets as it learns from your input! Watson can be used as chatbots, to improve customer service and as cognitive analytics system amongst multiple other uses.
Here’s a great introduction video about how Watson works;
Watson originally rose to fame when it won the US show Jeopardy in 2011 against former winners Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings. You can view the win below;
A further in-depth study can be found Here
The videos below also offer a deeper insight into Watson’s capabilities.
- Introduction to what Watson can do – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZDyxLlNKRY_Jgb_1FI5P7LwQ6gCKrZYS
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FikHwoJ6_FE&list=PLZDyxLlNKRY8Bb-vnoX6r0HoOyPzmViBX&index=30 – Building with Watson – A Technical Intro to Watson Discovery Service
Today Watson offers a variety of services as detailed below;
- Watson Conversation
Quickly build, test and deploy bots or virtual agents across mobile devices, messaging platforms, or even on a physical robot to create natural conversations between your apps and users.
- Watson Virtual Agent
Quickly configure virtual agents with company information, using pre-built content and engage customers in a conversational, personalized manner, on any channel.
- Watson Knowledge Studio
Teach Watson to discover meaningful insights in unstructured text without writing any code.
- Explore Watson APIs
Use Watson language, conversation, speech, vision and data insight APIs to add cognitive functionality to your application or service.
Watson has been used by the medical, business and even fashion industries in a variety of ways. You can discover different cases of Watson in action – Here
Check out a tonne of more information about Watson and Cognitive on the IBM Youtube channels;
- IBM Watson Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/IBMWatsonSolutions/playlists
- IBM Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/IBM/playlists
- IBM Research https://www.youtube.com/user/IBMLabs/playlists
I hope you learnt a bit more about Watson- ‘Til the next time!
Ruthy xo
Disclaimer: this article is my own opinion and research and doesn’t necessarily represent IBM’s positions, beliefs,strategies or opinions. All information used is publicly available and non confidential. Please see my original post at https://consultingbydegrees.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/what-do-you-know-about-watson/