On Thursday IBM will announce that Watson, the computing system that beat all the humans on “Jeopardy!” two years ago, will be available in a form more than twice as powerful via the Internet. Companies, academics and individual software developers will be able to use it at a small fraction of the previous cost, drawing on IBM’s specialists in fields like computational linguistics to build machines that can interpret complex data and better interact with humans.
Why does it seem I have an uncanny ability to predicts these events? I don't, what you are seeing is me doing pretty damn good searches on the web, and the fact that I am from the field and I really do know the computer markets. But behind the scenes in this development is a history of Moore's Law, a history of Javascript, data bases and a history of semantic graph processing research. I was bumping right along with IBM for my career and on my blog. Hence, on the web, the IBM researchers and I speak the same language, even though we have never met. Our conversation is intermediated by a global brain. So, I am really just a specialized reporter who can make the web work two ways in this specialized instance.
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