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Has anyone at HN used either IBM Watson or Wolfram Alpha to build a real (commercial) app? It feels like there should be a whole wave of apps built on either of these technologies but it doesn't seem to be materialising. What is holding back the killer apps for answer/computation engines?
Out of curiosity I googled the same request. https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%22His+1983+h... . I think this might be useful if Watson was being feed with a medical database. Otherwise I don't see any need for it; is there any? edit: Watson as a legal consultant would be great. There might be a product in that, not as an replacement for a lawyer but more as guide/search tool.
I would think Watson can replace most lawyers (and MDs, and ...) of this world. Most of them don't think and just rehash stuff they learnt, just like Watson does. Sure for the exceptions you need actual people, but that is the same time when you would go from your corner lawyer to a more prominent one and when your doctor would forward you to an expert anyway.
Watson could replace lawyers or doctors for people that equate Google searches to legal advice or medical advice. Think legalzoom and webmd... Absolutely seems like it could be an entertaining way for a non lawyer or no doctor to explore a law or medical library. The majority on my time spent with lawyers has been discussing my issue until it could be distiled down to a couple concise legal questions; I bought a short sell house and the seller demanded that I put a clause in the contract that said his bank couldn't issue him an i9... I have. No authority over tax laws but I also didn't want any liability or an invalid contract, nor to willingly build a bogus one. There was some real language subtlty to it all and I didn't even know the questions to ask.
Same with doctors, pain is relative, strong pains turn lesser pains into mild discomfort and people are insanely good at ignoring and normalizing pains away. Do most patients even know what to ask or describe?
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to have a lawyer and a doctor on my smartphone all day everyday but it still seems like a ways off. Watson really seems like a tool that cuts your legal fees because your lawyers research time drops 90% or something. (Or rather, he makes 90% more profit from you..)
IBM is about to make these APIs (and many others) much more accessible as part of BlueMix ( https://ace.ng.bluemix.net/ - the IBM PaaS/Heroku). I lead the team in charge of developing the Watson platform. Ask me questions!
Not quite what I expected. Does this mean the developers provide the data?
If you want access to the API, you have to fill out a form, here: http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/form_ecosys... This is buried in the docs as a comment on this page: https://developer.ibm.com/watson/docs/developing-watson-apis... Edit: No real support for 'playing around' with the API. Bummer. Edit2: Just went through the application process linked above. Be prepared to give info about yourself and…
Watson APIs will be accessible - without the need for an application - as part of BlueMix ( https://ace.ng.bluemix.net/ - the IBM PaaS/Heroku) in a couple of weeks. Stay posted!
IBM is about to make these APIs (and many others) much more accessible as part of BlueMix ( https://ace.ng.bluemix.net/ - the IBM PaaS/Heroku). I lead the team in charge of developing the Watson platform. Ask me questions!
>Data: at least 50 percent of content is unstructured, and sufficient volume exists Not quite what I expected. Does this mean the developers provide the data?
If you read the documentation, you will see that preparing training data and questions is fairly straightforward.
IBM is about to make these APIs (and many others) much more accessible as part of BlueMix ( https://ace.ng.bluemix.net/ - the IBM PaaS/Heroku). I lead the team in charge of developing the Watson platform. Ask me questions!
I fully admit you may not be the right person for this question, but IBM has made a lot of hay about Watson in healthcare: lots of booths and talks at industry conferences, trotting out partner medical centers, PR pieces in the Wall Street Journal, etc... Despite all the noise, I have yet to see any sort of peer-reviewed clinical study that demonstrates the application of Watson in a real healthcare setting to improv…
IBM is about to make these APIs (and many others) much more accessible as part of BlueMix ( https://ace.ng.bluemix.net/ - the IBM PaaS/Heroku). I lead the team in charge of developing the Watson platform. Ask me questions!
1. How does Watson know to share only public data and not confidential data if it comes across it? How does it gather data? 2. Does it cache answers or does it try to "learn" and modify/improve the response each time?
2. Watson can learn from feedback (i.e., a user grading the quality of an answer).
IBM is about to make these APIs (and many others) much more accessible as part of BlueMix ( https://ace.ng.bluemix.net/ - the IBM PaaS/Heroku). I lead the team in charge of developing the Watson platform. Ask me questions!
That's amazing news - thanks a tonne. Any chance there's someone at the mothership (maybe you!) we can reach out to, for support? Specifically I'd like to toss out some questions about data sources and whatnot - to understand if Watson is worth playing with for us.