Judgement day is coming closer
Run little spreadsheet, run! IBM's Watson is coming to gobble you up
IBM's Jeopardy! star supercomputer Watson has turned its attention from trivial pursuits to even more mundane pursuits – namely, crunching sales figures for companies. Big Blue on Tuesday announced Watson Analytics, its latest attempt to pimp its "cognitive computing" tech as a cloud service, this time aimed at business …
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Tuesday 16th September 2014 22:42 GMT Anonymous Coward
Doesn't Watson learn as data is entered? He learned some poor words to use thanks to Urban Dictionary. Why would a company want to "give" IBM all of their data. Will Watson ever forget it or does someone pay some money and ask Watson how a competitor is doing?
Hmmm, Maybe HP should have used this before they bought Autonomy.
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Wednesday 17th September 2014 08:07 GMT Peter Gathercole
Watson is not a single computer any more
While what we saw on Jeopardy! could clearly be seen as a computer cluster running as a single service, what IBM have now is an analytics application that runs as a fenced cloud service. This means that it runs on just your data, and that data is separated from another companies data, as much as anything is fenced in a cloud service.
So, if you trust company data separation in the cloud, you're just as safe using the IBM Cognitive Computing service as any other cloud service.
I'm not saying how safe I feel that is, however...
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Thursday 18th September 2014 00:39 GMT raving angry loony
Re: *cough*Salesforce.com*cough* Excellent idea
Good point, well made. I didn't realize Salesforce didn't allow local servers. Learn something new... etc.
Amazing what some businesses will trust. And as an American company, they answer to the US State Dept (in a roundabout way), an organization with a documented history of helping American companies no matter what the cost to non-American interests. Wonder how many Russian organizations are using Salesforce these days?
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