IBM Watson: Me Too, Me Too with Olli Smart Transport
June 21, 2016
I read “IBM’s Watson AI Powers IoT Services In Self-Driven Mini Bus.” Lots of outfits are pushing the self driving vehicle. Why is the news that IBM has Olli, a smart bus thing not too surprising? IBM Watson can do anything those upstarts can do, that’s why. IBM is the cognitive king.
The write up states:
IBM today announced that Watson, its AI platform, will be powering a range of services in a new self-driving bus concept named Olli. Designed by Local Motors, Olli is electric-powered, caries up to 12 people and will start operating in Washington DC…
Yep, DC, the city which has distinguished itself with excellent management of its existing subway system. My recollection is that riders have an opportunity to be trapped underground when parts of the electrical subsystem burst into flames. Exciting.
Olli will be above ground. That’s one Metro problem solved. The write up asserts:
Local Motor’s Olli will be the world’s first self-driven public transportation vehicle and will benefit from four APIs that will come with Watson, namely Speech to Text, Natural Language Classifier, Entity Extraction and Text to Speech. Olli will be riddled with a number of Watson-enabled sensors using which it will be able to perform a range of functions like interacting with commuters about routes and destinations as well as analyzing transportation data. It will also be able to help passengers with information about local landmarks and will also offer suggestions on nearby restaurants…
Sounds great, but then so did the Metro.
Stephen E Arnold, June 21, 2016
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