IBM’s Watson will soon be another resource available to doctors in the fight against lung cancer. IBM announced today that, so far, Watson’s artificial mind has been filled with over 600,000 pieces of medical evidence. Watson …
Apple (AAPL) introduced its Siri voice assistant with the launch of the iPhone 4S last October and since then, a number of copycat apps have been made available. While all these services show potential, in their current state they are just too limited for everyday use. IBM (IBM) is looking to change that, however, with the help of its supercomputer Watson. Bernie Meyerson, IBM’s vice president of innovation, said that he always envisioned a voice-activated Watson that would answer questions based on location data, historical trends and scientific studies. “The power it takes to make Watson work is dropping down like a stone,” Meyerson said in an interview with Bloomberg. “One day, you will have ready access to an incredible
Ma Bell’s been hard at work on its Watson speech recognition system for years, and 2012 has seen the tech show up in an automobile and a real-time translator app. Months after announcing it would grant Watson’s skills to the developer masses, AT&T…
Remember that QNX-loaded Porsche 911 we sat down with (in?) at CES? Well, it’s back and it learned a few new tricks en route to New Amsterdam York City. The car-friendly software company got its hooks into AT&T’s Watson Speech API and used it to …
Supercomputers at the forefront of medical practice? The notion is by no means a stretch of the imagination. Yet, research of this kind mostly goes unnoticed — that is, unless the computational wizardry handholding these advancements belongs to Jeopa…
Watson’s been a busy supercomputer since it took a couple of humans to school on Jeopardy last year — what with its stint at Columbia and a recent foray into hunting patent trolls — and now it’s taking on the financial industry. IBM and Citigroup re…
The Watson supercomputer used its speech recognition, natural language processing, machine learning and data mining abilities to crush puny human Ken Jennings’ dreams of winning at “Jeopardy!”, but now Big Blue has it chasing down medical patent tro…
There was a massacre in Boston the other night, and Watson had blood all over his hands. The IBM supercomputer and undisputed Jeopardy champ made a virtual appearance in Beantown this week, ostensibly as part of a symposium on the ways in which adva…
