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I'd like to have seen how IBM would have fared with Watson.

by robgibbons 11y ago

tmerr 11y ago
Isn't Watson a question answering system? I don't think it's specialized for image recognition.
- hiddencost 11y ago
  https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/visual-recognition.html https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developerc... Watson is a marketing term. IBM provides a variety of machine learning services and calls them all Watson.
  - tmerr 11y ago
    Well, that's just confusing.
skadamat 11y ago
Watson doesn't have much unique computer vision capabilities unfortunately. They did some good work in NLP a decade ago but not added much since
- douche 11y ago
  Have they not really added much to it since the Jeopardy stunt? We get some periodic rumblings about integrating it with a customer-service tool, but it is starting to sound a little Duke Nukem Forever
  - vcarl 11y ago
    They have it doing medical analysis (I'm hesitant to say "diagnosis" but I think it's being used to find symptom patterns doctors might otherwise miss). http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/health/ http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/health/ Watson for Oncology analyzes a patient’s medical information against a vast array of data, including ongoing expert training from MSK physicians, cancer case histories, and more, to provide evidence-based treatment options.
  - papercruncher 11y ago
    Does Chef Watson count? It's actually pretty neat as a consumer tool, it suggests the weirdest things but somehow they taste fine. No idea about the inner workings though https://www.ibmchefwatson.com/ https://www.ibmchefwatson.com/
    - kristopolous 11y ago
      These are "invented" by the computer right? I just had a suggestion for shrimp, peanut, olive oil, ginger, garlic, grapefruit juice, blood orange, dill, coriander seed, turmeric That's a really odd mix but it honestly seems ok ... although I'd sub the shrimp for salmon ... apparently I can in the interface. Nice. Also the ingredient input seems to lack exotic things like frogs, rattlesnakes, camels, durian, or ostrich. But quinoa and quail eggs are there.
- nl 11y ago
  AlchemyVision[1] from IBM Watson's Developer Cloud/BlueMix[2] is part of the Watson stack, and is pretty good. One of the few public APIs that lets you train your own categories. [1] http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/alchemy-vision.html http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercl... [2] Pretty sure I need some (c) and TMs in there somewhere

I'd like to have seen how IBM would have fared with Watson.

tmerr 11y ago

Isn't Watson a question answering system? I don't think it's specialized for image recognition.

hiddencost 11y ago
https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/visual-recognition.html https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developerc... Watson is a marketing term. IBM provides a variety of machine learning services and calls them all Watson.
- tmerr 11y ago
  Well, that's just confusing.

skadamat 11y ago

Watson doesn't have much unique computer vision capabilities unfortunately. They did some good work in NLP a decade ago but not added much since

douche 11y ago
Have they not really added much to it since the Jeopardy stunt? We get some periodic rumblings about integrating it with a customer-service tool, but it is starting to sound a little Duke Nukem Forever
- vcarl 11y ago
  They have it doing medical analysis (I'm hesitant to say "diagnosis" but I think it's being used to find symptom patterns doctors might otherwise miss). http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/health/ http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/health/ Watson for Oncology analyzes a patient’s medical information against a vast array of data, including ongoing expert training from MSK physicians, cancer case histories, and more, to provide evidence-based treatment options.
- papercruncher 11y ago
  Does Chef Watson count? It's actually pretty neat as a consumer tool, it suggests the weirdest things but somehow they taste fine. No idea about the inner workings though https://www.ibmchefwatson.com/ https://www.ibmchefwatson.com/
  - kristopolous 11y ago
    These are "invented" by the computer right? I just had a suggestion for shrimp, peanut, olive oil, ginger, garlic, grapefruit juice, blood orange, dill, coriander seed, turmeric That's a really odd mix but it honestly seems ok ... although I'd sub the shrimp for salmon ... apparently I can in the interface. Nice. Also the ingredient input seems to lack exotic things like frogs, rattlesnakes, camels, durian, or ostrich. But quinoa and quail eggs are there.
nl 11y ago
AlchemyVision[1] from IBM Watson's Developer Cloud/BlueMix[2] is part of the Watson stack, and is pretty good. One of the few public APIs that lets you train your own categories. [1] http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/alchemy-vision.html http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercl... [2] Pretty sure I need some (c) and TMs in there somewhere