13. How will users access these services?
Where:
•Through the user’s Bluemix account
•New users will receive 30 day free access on
Bluemix.
•After 30 days, pricing will be based on
Bluemix usage plan, but Watson Services for
Bluemix are free while in beta
How:
•Link to Watson landing page on the top
carousel of Bluemix main landing page
•Documentation, demos, videos, etc. will be
available to support development
15. Eight services are available with more on the way
User Modeling
Personality profiling to help engage users on their own terms.
Language Identification
Identifies the language in which text is written
Machine Translation
Globalize on the fly. Translate text from one language to another.
Concept Expansion
Maps euphemisms or colloquial terms to more commonly understood phrases
Message Resonance
Communicate with people with a style and words that suits them
Question Answer
Direct responses to users inquiries fueled by primary document sources
Relationship Extraction
Intelligently finds relationships between sentences components (nouns, verbs, subjects, objects, etc.)
Visualization Rendering
Graphical representations of data analysis for easier understanding
16. Who is using the services today?
We ran a five week closed beta with twelve participants. Examples:
“…we were able to
quickly and easily
embed Watson's
capabilities into our
eyeQinsights platform
to provide an even
more personalized
shopping experience”
“we’re able to work with
cognitive computing
capabilities that we
couldn’t dream of
creating ourselves - it’s
a fantastic opportunity
and a real chance to
transform our industry”
“[this] is like putting the
Hubble telescope in the
hands of a backyard
astronomer… Watson’s
cognitive possibilities
alone will spawn a
completely new service
industry…”
22. Bluemix users can choose the
Watson Developer Cloud access
that fits their need
Trial
- Free Access
- Beta Services (Fixed)
Sandbox
- Paid access to production
Production
- Production pricing
Editor's Notes
But imagine if you could take the skills, wisdom and experience of your organization’s top experts and scale that expertise across your entire organization, so all employees could perform at the level of your best employees.
This is where we are now. Let’s look to the future. The Watson Ecosystem was launched in late 2013. We will scale it in 2014 as we open the aperture to bring more partners onboard.
All of this has led us to a new era of computing: Cognitive Systems Era. This is significant in the history of computing – there have only been 2 previous ones.
Tabulating systems era – the advent of the adding machine to tabulate the census
Programmable Systems era – Fortran, Cobol, PL1, etc.
Cognitive - Watson
What is cognitive computing? Cognitive computing is comprised of 3 core transformational technologies:
Understanding natural language – to be able to leverage and understand all of the unstructured data being created. And, to be able to interact with humans in a conversational dialog.
Generates and evaluates hypotheses – to find and return not a single “right” answer, but multiple possible answers weighted with confidence – and the source of where the answer was extracted from.
Adapts and learns – Watson is not programmed. It learns the way humans do – through trial and error and being trained.
Today, there is a convergence of mega trends that are resulting in phenomena known as Big Data. The proliferation of mobile devices, the explosion of social media, the benefit analytics brings to organizations, and the availability of Cloud applications. Big Data is not just about the volume of data. It is much more than that. It’s about the velocity, variety, and veracity. As IM partners, you understand and appreciate the challenges this brings.
But imagine if you could take the skills, wisdom and experience of your organization’s top experts and scale that expertise across your entire organization, so all employees could perform at the level of your best employees.
Brooks, what will be covered? current internal or to-be Oct 1
Will we have our own branding within BlueMix?
Thank you.
This is where we are now. Let’s look to the future. 2013 = launching, 2014 = scaling. How do we scale? Ecosystem