Super Search Cooks Dinner and Other Practical Skulls
October 19, 2013
The next time you go to a restaurant and ask to speak with the chef to give him your complements, you just might requesting to speak with IBM’s Watson. According to the MIT Technology Review in, “New Answer From IBM’s Watson: Recipe For Swiss-Thai Fusion Quiche” Watson can now cook. Marked as one of the “light” functions that Watson can perform, inventing recipes is one of the new ways devised to help people on the search and answer discovery.
IBM may have invented the next, best toy robot, but after winning Jeopardy they wanted to put Watson’s AI to more practical uses. While Watson has also been testing its skills in medical applications, the AI has trouble deciphering individual writing styles.
The best way to fix this problem is:
“Watson and other analytic technologies will get better if such records are formatted in clearer ways–with distinct fields for patient symptoms, actions taken, and outcomes, he said. With this in mind, IBM has been trying to customize business software to be Watson-ready (see “Watson’s New Job: IBM Salesman”). A larger point was articulated by Thomas Malone, director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. The future, he said, lies in building systems that can best leverage the capabilities of humans and computers. A growing body of research is finding that answers gleaned from a combination of humans and computers are more accurate than those generated by either group alone, he said.”
Right now, the best way to make Watson learn is to ask him questions based on a series of search parameters such as the recipes. The results may be strange, such as the papaya-cayenne-orange custard it developed, but oddly delectable.
Whitney Grace, October 19, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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