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It seems that to get a true "wow" moment out of this, you would need to use the services in combination, but there is no demo of this. Each demo looks like noth

It seems that to get a true "wow" moment out of this, you would need to use the services in combination, but there is no demo of this. Each demo looks like nothing more than a database search of the training data - no super amazing algorithms supplied. Perhaps IBM could provide an example "wow" moment to inspire us?

pesenti 12y ago
The demos are really made to demonstrate some basic input/output usage. Combination apps are indeed where we think developers will find the most value. We plan to have an app gallery to show that soon. Thanks for the suggestion.
- philbarr 12y ago
  Could you describe a potential "wow" app, and how you would use the combination of services to achieve it? To get me salivating for more?
  - tucson 12y ago
    create a persona that can have a conversation with people see the movie "Her" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/ how many people will fall in love with Watson?
    - thisjepisje 12y ago
      Let's call it Emma Watson then.
      - joshmn 12y ago
        I already do, and don't think I'm alone...
  - aameek 12y ago
    To give an example ... Here is what a retail partner is building with these services around specialized marketing: They have (or get) a user's twitter handle, feed the content authored by the user into the user modeling service and based on the characteristics, send appropriate coupons/offers (e.g. very adventurous or less so etc). Combining that with the machine translation & language identification services, they are able to broaden this to many more languages vs. just English. The part that they are doing next is: with the community of their users, they want to check the potential resonance of their marketing messages to those users, which they do with the Message Resonance service. Based on that, they can pick the most likely to be resonant message before sending it to the user.
  - toomuchtodo 12y ago
    Was expecting people to talk about apps centered around delivering healthcare advice/information cheaper/more readily to people, turns out we're just going to keep finding ways to use tech to market ads to people.
    - jsstylos 12y ago
      The APIs can be used for all of the types of apps you mention -- there's nothing limited to, or even targeted to advertising. Here's an idea for an app: Imagine that you're a non-native English speaker, and you want to communicate with English-speaking friends on Facebook or Twitter. Language identification can detected your language, machine translation and translate it to English, concept expansion can automatically generate potential synonyms, message resonance can select the synonyms that best capture your message, and user modeling can tell you what kind of emotions your message is communicating. This technology can and will be used to bring people together, but ultimately it comes down to what types of apps people make.
djulius 12y ago
Watson itself was the "wow" moment.
- throwawayornot 12y ago
  more like the "wow great PR" moment

pesenti 12y ago

The demos are really made to demonstrate some basic input/output usage. Combination apps are indeed where we think developers will find the most value. We plan to have an app gallery to show that soon. Thanks for the suggestion.

philbarr 12y ago
Could you describe a potential "wow" app, and how you would use the combination of services to achieve it? To get me salivating for more?
- tucson 12y ago
  create a persona that can have a conversation with people see the movie "Her" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/ how many people will fall in love with Watson?
  - thisjepisje 12y ago
    Let's call it Emma Watson then.
    - joshmn 12y ago
      I already do, and don't think I'm alone...
- aameek 12y ago
  To give an example ... Here is what a retail partner is building with these services around specialized marketing: They have (or get) a user's twitter handle, feed the content authored by the user into the user modeling service and based on the characteristics, send appropriate coupons/offers (e.g. very adventurous or less so etc). Combining that with the machine translation & language identification services, they are able to broaden this to many more languages vs. just English. The part that they are doing next is: with the community of their users, they want to check the potential resonance of their marketing messages to those users, which they do with the Message Resonance service. Based on that, they can pick the most likely to be resonant message before sending it to the user.
- toomuchtodo 12y ago
  Was expecting people to talk about apps centered around delivering healthcare advice/information cheaper/more readily to people, turns out we're just going to keep finding ways to use tech to market ads to people.
  - jsstylos 12y ago
    The APIs can be used for all of the types of apps you mention -- there's nothing limited to, or even targeted to advertising. Here's an idea for an app: Imagine that you're a non-native English speaker, and you want to communicate with English-speaking friends on Facebook or Twitter. Language identification can detected your language, machine translation and translate it to English, concept expansion can automatically generate potential synonyms, message resonance can select the synonyms that best capture your message, and user modeling can tell you what kind of emotions your message is communicating. This technology can and will be used to bring people together, but ultimately it comes down to what types of apps people make.

djulius 12y ago

Watson itself was the "wow" moment.

throwawayornot 12y ago
more like the "wow great PR" moment