Weakly Watson: A Smart Hat
June 14, 2016
I am not making this up. Navigate to “A Dad Made a Real-Life ‘Harry Potter’ Sorting Hat Using IBM’s Watson — Here’s How It Works.” Lucky kids. I bet everyone in their school understands the importance of IBM Watson. And the fashion. Stellar. I would reproduce a photo of the IBM Watson hat, but I am fearful that [a] a legal eagle would swoop upon me and [b] my gentle readers would think I photoshopped the image.
According to the write up:
The hat works simply enough. You place it on your head (that part is actually for fun, you could just talk to it) and tell the sorting hat a few things about yourself so it can sort you appropriately.
And Watson:
But running on the Natural Language Classifyer [sic] language alone would have forced users to describe themselves over written text. And we all know that’s not how the real sorting hat works! So Anderson also used Watson’s Speech to Text feature so you can speak to the hat.
You will find more details at this link. I want to reiterate that I am quite impressed. The lucky children will be the talk of anyone who sees them wearing this gizmo.
IBM Watson. More than recipes.
Stephen E Arnold, June 14, 2016
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