IBM Prepares to Open Watson to Third Party Developers
November 16th, 2013Via: PCWorld:
IBM is preparing to give third parties access to its Watson supercomputer with the aim of spurring the growth of applications that take advantage of the system’s artificial intelligence capabilities.
Watson, which is derived from IBM’s DeepQA project, drew worldwide attention in 2011 after it soundly defeated human opponents on the Jeopardy! game show.
IBM has been applying Watson’s machine learning—or “cognitive computing”—technology to domains such as health care, but now the company is ready to share Watson with the broader world.
