Watson Needs Some Intellectual Help

March 13, 2015

IBM touts its Watson supercomputer as an end all solution for natural language processing, information dissemination, cooking, research, and whatever they else they can program into the machine. Reuters, however, found out that IBM made a recent purchase, “IBM Buys AlchemyAPI To Boost Watson Computing Unit.”

IBM wants Watson to be more human like as it sifts through mounds of data to help users. AlchemyAPI offers IBM ready access to 40,000 developers that have built tools using the former’s technology. The extra developers would offer IBM new developmental insight into how to improve Watson for mainstream use.

How will it be used?

“The software, which learns as it goes, enables users to group together disparate information on a certain topic or event, find related articles or information sources, and helps advertisers target online ads better. With the addition of AlchemyAPI’s technology, Gold said IBM sees opportunities for Watson in many fields such as healthcare, law and insurance, or wherever there are large volumes of unstructured data to be analyzed.”

It seems Watson cannot do everything on its own and needs a little help from other technology. It is hard to imagine that Watson needs the extra boost, consider IBM hypes the supercomputer up as able to handle information by the truckload.

Whitney Grace, March 13, 2015
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under News, Technology

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