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IBM's Watson Now Answers Your Questions Before You Ask

posted by janrinok on Saturday August 30 2014, @01:09AM   Printer-friendly
from the the-answer-is-42 dept.

AnonTechie writes:

Watson Discovery Advisor has been upgraded to seek out hidden relations in data.

IBM has upgraded its Watson Discovery Advisor data analysis service so it can answer your questions before you even ask. The updated Watson Discovery Advisor can examine a body of data and identify trends, correlations and other points of interest for researchers, IBM said. The service will provide you leads "when you don't know the question to ask, and for when you want to uncover and discover in the data new insights and patterns," said Steve Gold, IBM vice president for the Watson platform.

Watson Discovery Advisor is a commercial offshoot ( http://www.pcworld.com/article/2086160/ibm-launches-business-unit-to-make-watson-a-moneymaker.html ) of Watson, packaging some of Watson's capabilities as a data analysis cloud service.

There is also notification of a Watson Group Discovery Event which has, unfortunately, reached us too late to be of any use - it took place on the 28 Aug in New York. Did any members of our community attend, and what was it like?

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 30 2014, @04:16AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 30 2014, @04:16AM (#87459)

    A book?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit [wikipedia.org]

    A DVD/Blue-Ray?
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903624/ [imdb.com]

    With insufficient data, Watson is no better off than Gollum....
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gollum [wikipedia.org]

  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday August 30 2014, @07:38AM

    by maxwell demon (1608) Subscriber Badge on Saturday August 30 2014, @07:38AM (#87494) Journal

    Pocket fluff.

    --
    The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 30 2014, @12:37PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 30 2014, @12:37PM (#87539)

      'Your hand' would also work and be a correct answer.

      Tolkein may (not) have been aware of this when he originaly wrote the Gollum/Bilbo riddle scene in THE HOBBIT (1937).

      I was always fond of that scene from the 1977 Rankin-Bass animated adaptation. :D

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qteq21CvDRE [youtube.com]

      If 'your hand' is not in the pocket, then Gollum (and Watson) are out of luck. :P

      But your answer of pocket lint is hands down the best and is the correct answer unless the clothing the pocket is attached to is 'brand spanking new'. Even then, it could be argued that the pockets of brand new, freshly made, never worn new clothes contain a teeny tiny amount of lint created during their manufaturing proces. :D