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IBM's Watson Got a Job as a Pastry Chef
Super computer Watson can crush puny humans at Jeopardy. It can do a pretty bang-up job as a doctor. It can swear up a storm. Two of those aren't easy for a normal person, but that's not enough for...
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After you've used your crazy robot intellect to crush puny meatbags definitively in a game of Jeopardy, it would seem like the world is your oyster. But Watson's not taking trying to take over the...
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IBM's Watson Is Planning to Fix America's Healthcare System
While Obama might be having a hell of a time trying to reform healthcare, we perhaps shouldn't worry too much—because IBM's supercomputer Watson is now being used to fix America's shortage of...
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IBM Is Running a Brain Computer On "Electronic Blood"
As part of what we can only assume is preparation for some very intense mad scientist Halloween costumes, IBM has announced a prototype computer that is both powered and cooled by an electrolyte...
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Watson Is Going To Be Open For Public Use on the Cloud
Watson was always going to be more than just a successful game show contestant. Now, the computer is about to take on anything and everything, as it opens itself up to the public on the cloud.Read more...
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IBM's Watson Is Now the Size of 3 Pizza Boxes--It's Also a Billionaire
IBM just put the pedal to the metal on Watson's crawl towards relevance. The company just announced a $1 billion investment, giving the supercomputer its own business division as well as an office in...
View ArticleHere Are Some of the Crazy New Recipes IBM's Watson Has Invented
It's a while since IBM's Watson was put to work inventing recipes , but now the fruits of its labors are being cooked up and served out of IBM's new food truck. And the results are... interesting.Read...
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Watson's First Consumer Role: Helping Military Vets Become Civilians
The USAA has announced that it's recruiting IBM's Watson for its first-ever consumer-facing application—and it'll help military members transition back into civilian life.Read more...
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This Cocktail Concocted By IBM's Watson Isn't Half Bad
The surreal strength of IBM's famous supercomputer, Watson, is now available to the public (for a fee). And to mark the occasion, the company threw a little party last week and served a very blue...
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IBM's Watson Will Give You Personalized Health Advice Based on Your DNA
IBM wants its supercomputer Watson to help you get healthy—by analyzing your genes. A startup called Pathway Genomics is teaming up with IBM to create a fitness and diet tracking app that uses DNA...
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Anyone Can Now Use IBM's Watson To Crunch Data For Free
You probably know IBM's Watson platform best from its winning performance on Jeopardy . But the supercomputer is more than just a mechanism for IBM to publicly shame smart people. It's arguably the...
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This Cute Dino Toy Is Baby's First AI Pal/Overlord
Look at this little dinosaur toy. Is he cute? Yes. Fun? Definitely. The possible harbinger of humanity's demise? Possibly. That's because CogniToys aren't not normal toys. Green Dino here is powered...
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IBM's Watson Could Offer Customized Treatment To Every Cancer Patient
Rather than relying on carpet-bombing approaches like chemotherapy and radiation treatments, cutting-edge cancer cures are looking more towards a surgical strike, tailored to shutting down the...
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Watson Can Now Identify the Attitude in Your Writing
Taking a break from treating cancer and making cocktails , IBM’s Watson is now turning its attention to how people write. The supercomputer has been trained to judge the tone in people’s written...
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IBM's Watson Will Morph Polite Pepper Into an Ultra-Intelligent Evil Genius
Pepper is super cute and remarkably well-mannered... for now. But that IBM just announced that the talking, emotion-reading robot will interface with Watson, lil Pep could turn into a smiling, evil...
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The Latest Job for IBM's Watson Is as a Hotel Concierge
Next time you check in at a Hilton, your welcome may be even more automated than usual. That’s because the hotel chain has been working with IBM to create a robotic concierge that it call Connie.Read...
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Computer Science Students Fooled By Artificially Intelligent TA
Students taking an online course at Georgia Tech’s School of Interactive Computing were duped into thinking one of their teaching assistants, named Jill Watson, was an actual human. And how can you...
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If You Don't Like the Idea of Google Driving Your Car, Maybe You'll Trust IBM?
IBM’s Watson can make drinks , detect sarcasm , and kick your ass at Jeopardy . The world’s most famous computer already acts so much more like a human than most people I know. Now transportation...
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Don't Look Into This Robot's Eyes While It Learns to Play the Ball-and-Cup Game
Japan’s popular Pepper robot can guess your mood, dress up in cute clothes and now, it can learn to play simple games. Read more...
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DNA's double helix discovery turns 60 – how monumental is it, really?
In April 1953, Francis Crick and James Watson published an unassuming one-page research paper with a finding many claimed would "revolutionize biological research": the double helical structure of DNA....
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IBM Will Use Watson To Battle Brain Cancer
No longer content with dominating at Jeopardy and serving up gourmet fusion dishes from food trucks, IBM's Watson will soon commit its supercomputer powers to fighting cancer. The goal: See whether...
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IBM's Watson Can Now Debate Its Opponents
Since defeating the world's greatest Jeopardy players, IBM's Watson has been busy at work in the healthcare industry. But now, the artificially intelligent computer has undergone a fairly substantive...
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Amoebas Are Still More Intelligent Than Our Most Powerful Computers
If you're one of those people who believe the singularity is imminent, you might want to pack a lunch. Our machines just aren't that smart, says Alva Noë, a philosopher at the University of California...
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Why Everyone Is Hating on IBM Watson—Including the People Who Helped Make It
You’ve probably seen the Watson commercials, where what looks like a sentient box interacts with celebrities like Bob Dylan, Carrie Fisher, and Serena Williams; or doctors; or a young cancer survivor....
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IBM Watson Reportedly Recommended Cancer Treatments That Were 'Unsafe and...
Internal company documents from IBM show that medical experts working with the company’s Watson supercomputer found “multiple examples of unsafe and incorrect treatment recommendations” when using the...
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