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I work on the team that designed and built Chef Watson, both the current app that is available at https://www.ibmchefwatson.com/ https://www.ibmchefwatson.com/

I work on the team that designed and built Chef Watson, both the current app that is available at https://www.ibmchefwatson.com/ https://www.ibmchefwatson.com/ and the food truck that we had at SXSW 2014. If you have questions about the technology or Watson stuff in general, such as the IBM Watson Developer Cloud, let me know and I'll attempt to answer them or track down the right person to answer them. As it is a holiday weekend here in the United States, if I need to track down someone for an answer it might take a couple of days - so I'm not hiding, it just might take a bit of time.

feefie 11y ago
If Medical Watson works for and is paid by cancer hospitals, does that affect Chef Watson's recommendations (either in a positive way, to keep us healthy, or in a negative way due to the profit incentive)? In other words, do the various Watson implementations have any shared data or code base that could influence the other? I assume not, but how cool would that be?
- pridkett 11y ago
  That's a really interesting idea, but that's incredibly advanced thinking and would require some pretty wicked engineering. Most of the different Watson tools share various code elements - for example, we're not writing a new system natural language processing, entity recognition, and relationship extraction for each tool. Watson technologies, however, are designed so they work inside of a particular domain or with a specific corpus. So, the work with MD Anderson (http://www.mdanderson.org/newsroom/news-releases/2013/ibm-watson-to-power-moon-shots-.html http://www.mdanderson.org/newsroom/news-releases/2013/ibm-wa...) has a nearly 100% separate data set from Chef Watson with Bon Appétit. I say nearly 100% separate data set because there are some common data sets derived from publicly available sources (e.g. wikipedia) that may be used by both systems. One of the other challenges is who the systems are designed for. Although anyone can use Chef Watson, it's not designed with everyone in mind. We've realized that the people with the best experiences are a little bit adventurous when it comes to cooking - they'll play around and improvise with flavors to create new recipes. This is a different demographic than would likely be using the health care system (doctors and care providers).

feefie 11y ago

If Medical Watson works for and is paid by cancer hospitals, does that affect Chef Watson's recommendations (either in a positive way, to keep us healthy, or in a negative way due to the profit incentive)? In other words, do the various Watson implementations have any shared data or code base that could influence the other? I assume not, but how cool would that be?

pridkett 11y ago
That's a really interesting idea, but that's incredibly advanced thinking and would require some pretty wicked engineering. Most of the different Watson tools share various code elements - for example, we're not writing a new system natural language processing, entity recognition, and relationship extraction for each tool. Watson technologies, however, are designed so they work inside of a particular domain or with a specific corpus. So, the work with MD Anderson (http://www.mdanderson.org/newsroom/news-releases/2013/ibm-watson-to-power-moon-shots-.html http://www.mdanderson.org/newsroom/news-releases/2013/ibm-wa...) has a nearly 100% separate data set from Chef Watson with Bon Appétit. I say nearly 100% separate data set because there are some common data sets derived from publicly available sources (e.g. wikipedia) that may be used by both systems. One of the other challenges is who the systems are designed for. Although anyone can use Chef Watson, it's not designed with everyone in mind. We've realized that the people with the best experiences are a little bit adventurous when it comes to cooking - they'll play around and improvise with flavors to create new recipes. This is a different demographic than would likely be using the health care system (doctors and care providers).