Pack Your Bags Watson We Are Off
February 13, 2013
Forbes’s Jan. 30 article on “IBM’s Watson Heads To University,” was a great pick-me-up for one of the oldest technological universities in he United States.
Watson is the computing system created by IBM that was a repeat winner on Jeopardy. The Watson system utilized cognitive computing in order to prevail over its human counterparts in the game.
And now, after hanging out in the health care field for a while, analyzing data and creating detailed diagnosis for physicians, Watson is headed to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).
“Other sophisticated computing systems have tackled the difficult problems of understanding voice and text…but with their backing by defense and intelligence agencies one suspects some of their most advanced accomplishments remain out of sight…”
Well, that’s a duh statement. IBM doesn’t have a stake in the defense department so they’re free to prostitute Watson out as they choose. Jeopardy or medical school, it’s all the same. But why take it out of the medical industry if it’s doing so well with diagnosis and predictive answering?
In all fairness, it’s only fitting that RPI get a chance to collaborate with this newest Watson software, it was one of the eight universities that worked with IBM during the production of the program. So it’s more of a “homecoming” and less of a “beauty school drop-out” for Watson.
Leslie Radcliff, February 13, 2013
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