7 Cool Things That IBM Watson Can Do
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If you already struggle to take enough vacation days during the year, you want to make the ones you do take count. Watson is helping tourists in the Canary Islands in Spain take personalized tours based on their own preferences.
According to IBM, “IBM Business Partner Red Skios worked with the island’s tourism organization to create a cognitive mobile app that learns from each tourist interaction. It gives tourists a personalized, fully immersive tour of Lanzarote, using their own tastes and preferences as a guide to dramatically improve their travel experience. This dynamic cognitive system incorporates a highly personalized feedback mechanism to analyze how visitors use the app, how they explore the island and their direct input, which allows the government of Lanzarote to accurately pinpoint areas in need of improvement.”
The Watson Visual Recognition tool allows users to train their own visual recognition classifiers within minutes “and achieve even higher precision beyond [its] general classification capabilities.” So what does that mean?
According to IBM, “this area of custom visual recognition classifiers we see is an emerging sweet spot in the rapidly evolving world of Cognitive computing. There are countless solutions being built today. Perhaps you want to pre-process and parse an image to visually inspect sections within an image for rust within a structure or use a drone to inspect a roof for hail damage.”
It’s been a while since I’ve read The Great Gatsby (high school required reading, anyone?) but Watson is able to identify the main characters in the novel, as well as the emotions associated with them using Natural Language Understanding.
According to IBM Watson Experience Leader Rachel Liddell, “Nick Carraway narrates The Great Gatsby, and so he communicates the emotion and sentiment of the language. Watson finds a negative sentiment associated with Tom and a neutral sentiment associated with both Daisy and Gatsby.”
Ah, tax time. Everyone’s favorite time of year…(not really.) But Watson is hoping to make it easier for tax pros and tax filers.
DeAnn Gould-Lancaster of H&R Block explains:
“During my conversations with clients, Watson is helping me drill down on the important questions – learning more about what happened this past tax year and how it may impact each client’s tax situation. Then, Watson helps me as I work with that client, suggesting areas I can explore with the client where he or she may qualify for deductions. And all the while, clients are part of the process as they follow along with us on a companion monitor as together we make sure they get the best possible outcome.”
A group of IBM employees developed a product code-named “Project Esaki” that uses Watson APIs to improve a potential candidate’s job search, according to Mehjabin Kapasi, offering manager, IBM Digital.
This web application is a “cognitive advisor that recommends jobs based on a candidate’s skills, interests, and personality. The advisor learns about the candidate through a series of natural conversations and responds to candidate’s questions just like a recruiter would.”
A company called Invoca is using IBM Watson’s Speech to Text API to provide marketers insights they need to deliver better customer experiences.
According to Invoca’s founder and CTO Colin Kelly, the company’s “Voice Marketing Cloud connects insights from phone conversations to the rest of the customer journey, and with Watson, we have an entirely new layer of data we can offer our customers to capture, analyze, and act on unstructured voice data efficiently and at scale.”
If you’re not an office supply nerd like me then maybe this one isn’t too exciting.
Staples has partnered with IBM Watson to transform its “Easy Button into an intelligent, voice-driven interface that can reorder office supplies with minimum human interaction.”
“The big advantage of the Watson Conversation Service for Staples is it can be quickly trained to understand natural-language input and respond to customers in a way that simulates a conversation between humans.”
If you’re not an office supply nerd like me then maybe this one isn’t too exciting.
Staples has partnered with IBM Watson to transform its “Easy Button into an intelligent, voice-driven interface that can reorder office supplies with minimum human interaction.”
“The big advantage of the Watson Conversation Service for Staples is it can be quickly trained to understand natural-language input and respond to customers in a way that simulates a conversation between humans.”
IBM Watson has come a long way since 2011 when it competed on Jeopardy! Now it is used in a multitude of ways and applications, which was what Watson developers envisioned when they created it.
Back in 2010, the team behind Watson said that it’s “technology has the potential to evolve for commercial use, transforming a number of industries. For example, in healthcare, it could be deployed as an online tool to assist medical professionals in formulating a diagnosis.” Now of course Watson is fully available in this capacity and is used in many other ways as well. Click through the slideshow to read more about 7 cool things Watson can do.
What is Watson?
“Watson is an efficient analytical engine that pulls many sources of data together in real-time, discovers an insight, and deciphers a degree of confidence.”
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