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New York Times wades into Watson
Published in AI
Monday, 19 July 2021 12:28

New York Times wades into Watson


Apparently, it is not Applish enough

The New York Times, which long ago sacrificed its technology journalistic credibility to hawk Apple products, has waded into the IBM supercomputer Watson.

Watson will work on rival clouds
Published in AI
Wednesday, 13 February 2019 11:40

Watson will work on rival clouds


IBM seeks to win over more AI customers

Big Blue has said that some of its Watson artificial intelligence services will work on rival cloud computing providers.

IBM cloud looks for AI bias
Published in AI
Friday, 28 September 2018 11:24

IBM cloud looks for AI bias


More transparency

IBM is now offering a cloud-based service designed to detect bias in AI and bring transparency to how AI-powered systems make decisions.

IBM's Watson still not Dr House yet
Published in AI
Thursday, 26 July 2018 10:55

IBM's Watson still not Dr House yet


Made a few mistakes

Hopes that AI might prove useful in medical diagnosis have received a bit of a set back after it was found that IBM's Watson supercomputer had been coming up with "multiple examples of unsafe and incorrect treatment recommendations".

IBM CEO says 80 percent of data is not searchable
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IBM Think 2018: That is where AI can help

Ginni Rometty, the President and CEO of IBM, reminded us that the world we are living in has changed dramatically. Eighty percent of data created is not searchable and this is where AI can really help.

Business users get their paws on Watson
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Tuesday, 20 March 2018 11:51

Business users get their paws on Watson


To build Mobile AI for the great unwashed

IBM has launched Watson Assistant, an artificial intelligence (AI) powered voice assistant for businesses to package to consumers.

IBM wants to put Watson on a smartphone
Published in IoT
Thursday, 10 November 2016 12:11

IBM wants to put Watson on a smartphone


Project Intu gets into embodied cognition

The ever-shrinking Big Blue is improving its cognitive computing efforts with the launch of a new system-agnostic platform called Project Intu.

IBM's CTO shows off GPU-accelerated Cognitive Computing
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Watson is all about human insight, discovery and advice


On Wednesday, IBM’s Chief Technology Officer Rob High gave a keynote speech with an emphasis on “cognitive computing” – another term for artificial intelligence, but with a goal of changing the role between humans and machines rather than recreating the human brain in machine form.

IBM's Watson has written a cookbook
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Monday, 13 April 2015 15:00

IBM's Watson has written a cookbook


And it can't even try what it creates

Normally when people are set to retire they have a crack at writing a novel or a biography and it seems that IBM's supercomputer Watson is no different.