IBM, Watson, and Patents
December 13, 2011
What no game show?
Although it’s getting a lot of recognition lately, Apple’s Siri probably isn’t the smartest machine on the block.
IBM’s Watson, if you remember, was the one to beat Ken Jennings in Jeopardy. With the computer’s speech recognition, natural language processing, machine learning, and data mining, IBM is now pushing Watson into other applications.
For example, WellPoint, a health plan company, is using Watson to search patient records and improve diagnosis. We learn more in the article on Slashdot, “IBM Watson to Battle Patent Trolls”:
..IBM itself is using Watson to help sell Watson (and other IBM products) to other companies. Now, using Watson’s data mining and natural language talents, IBM has created the Strategic IP Insight Platform, or SIIP, a tool that has already scanned millions of medical patents and journals for the sake of improving drug discovery — and in the future, it’s easy to see how the same tool could be used to battle patent trolling, too.
It seems there are a lot of present and future implications for the company, but where’s the cloud service which showcases this formidable system?
Andrea Hayden, December 13, 2011
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