http://www.rossintelligence.com/ they use watson AI to simplify the legal system.
Ask HN: Is anybody doing something productive with IBM Watson or is it just BS?
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Re: Ask HN: Is anybody doing something productive with IBM Watson or is it just BS?
#32I am aware of some groups that are (at least planning to) use IBM Watson to analyse the outcomes and impacts of social policy research.
As a (made up) example: feeding the AI data-sets of various social investments made (eg: education, mental health, social & medical support) alongside health and societal outcomes (crime, hospital intake, suicides, etc..) then overlaying it on a map and maybe getting Watson to "tell you" which investments had the best impacts.
That particular example is actually an amalgam of a number of projects my girlfriend has undertaken recently in her career as a social-policy analyst BUT she is also enrolled in a university Master's program next year where one of the possibilities for her placement is to work supporting the Watson team in figuring out how to use Watson to improve lives & outcomes in the real world.
I've also heard about using Watson in analyzing health data (detecting cancers based on mass x-ray analysis) - but I don't know how much of that is currently working.
Hope that helps - I know it's all anecdotal from my side and I can't link you to anything published on the topic, but you can take the example for what it is worth :)
EDIT - I'll try and ask her if she got any more information about what she was going to do for Watson.
Re: Ask HN: Is anybody doing something productive with IBM Watson or is it just BS?
#33Here is a recent Dallas R Users meetup on the very of topic of using IBM Watson
http://www.meetup.com/Dallas-R-Users-Group/events/229283377/
Re: Ask HN: Is anybody doing something productive with IBM Watson or is it just BS?
#34My brother is creating new chocolate confections with Watson's ingredient pairing. :-D It's called Chocolat Monarque and it's in Montreal.
I've signed up for chef Watson as well! it's really cool.
Re: Ask HN: Is anybody doing something productive with IBM Watson or is it just BS?
#35I'm successfully using it to supply a hedge fund with a new kind of edge.
Re: Ask HN: Is anybody doing something productive with IBM Watson or is it just BS?
#36My brother is creating new chocolate confections with Watson's ingredient pairing. :-D It's called Chocolat Monarque and it's in Montreal.
Can you share more please? merci
https://www.ibmchefwatson.com/community
Chef Watson is allegedly very good at what it does.
Re: Ask HN: Is anybody doing something productive with IBM Watson or is it just BS?
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Okay, here's two, then I gotta get off this thread and get back to work: http://www.businessinsider.com/r-ibms-watson-to-guide-cancer... https://www.mskcc.org/about/innovative-collaborations/watson...
You seem to be working against your own argument. 1) Business Insider is at best, simply not research journal, nor is it specifying results. 2) The medical center publication first statement says "A team of physicians and analysts at Memorial Sloan Kettering has been “training” IBM Watson for more than a year..." Seems like like something productive would be going the other way....
No... it wouldn't be going the other way. You have to train with corpuses of data.
Re: Ask HN: Is anybody doing something productive with IBM Watson or is it just BS?
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
What kind of details? Like exactly what it's doing?
In terms of some of the cancer stuff, this can explain it way better than I can. "But it can take weeks to identify drugs targeting cancer-causing mutations. Watson can do it in minutes and has in its database the findings of scientific papers and clinical trials on particular cancers and potential therapies." http://www.businessinsider.com/r-ibms-watson-to-guide-cancer...
As someone who works at the bioinformatics end of a clinical cancer sequencing operation, and someone familiar with the MSKCC operation (they are doing good work with their IMPACT assay) I have to say that the landscape of matching patients with drugs is so sparse (few drugs, few FDA-approved links, not enough trials) that no Watson is necessary, just basic string matching and a comprehensive high-quality up-to-date database (which does not exist and currently there are 10+ companies working on it)
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
What kind of details? Like exactly what it's doing?
I think that is what the above poster is asking and the root of the original inquiry. Most press and IBM originated information about Watson reads like vague sales collateral or PR puff. The first link I get on google when I type in "watson" is titled "IBM Watson - The platform for cognitive business" [1] which is pretty meaningless. I click "What is Watson?" and get this page [2] which says "IBM Watson is a technolo…
The PR speak a while ago was that it would sift through research papers and books looking for relevant answers to a query - a much smarter Google Scholar. Nobody can keep track of all the cancer research, apparently, so machine analysis makes sense, IBM says.
Re: Ask HN: Is anybody doing something productive with IBM Watson or is it just BS?
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think that is what the above poster is asking and the root of the original inquiry. Most press and IBM originated information about Watson reads like vague sales collateral or PR puff. The first link I get on google when I type in "watson" is titled "IBM Watson - The platform for cognitive business" [1] which is pretty meaningless. I click "What is Watson?" and get this page [2] which says "IBM Watson is a technolo…
The PR speak a while ago was that it would sift through research papers and books looking for relevant answers to a query - a much smarter Google Scholar. Nobody can keep track of all the cancer research, apparently, so machine analysis makes sense, IBM says.
Right, but is that what it's doing? It sounds like PR is all that exists.