Ask HN: Is anybody doing something productive with IBM Watson or is it just BS?

Post by tedmiston » Fri, Apr 29, 2016, 1:13 AM UTC

clavalle wrote: post #41

I've helped IBM explore some consumer applications around Watson. We were basically using it as a recommendation engine. In contrast with regular recommendation engines which require other users to feed it data on preferences and then try to match you with similar users, the project we were working on had Watson build a feature space on its own (something it is very, very good at) then match a user profile within tha…