IBM Expands Watson Platform for Next Generation of Builders

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IBM expands cognitive APIs in the Watson Developer Cloud (WDC) for developers who are creating products, services and applications embedded with Watson. These APIs focus on increased capabilities in language, including an NLP classifier, dialog, concept expansion, and document conversion; speech; vision; and data insights. IBM also announced that it will launch next year an IBM Watson facility in San Francisco that puts it closer to developers, startups, venture, and academics in the region. This follows IBM’s announcement ...

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Master Algorithm. Really?

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Daniel Levitin crafts an interesting review of Pedro Domingo’s recent book The Master Algorithm. Author, neuroscientist, musician, Levitin brings all of these fields into play in visiting the ground of learning algorithms, their effectiveness, their limitations, their future(s), and their implications. Both Domingo and Levitin are resources of value to anyone thinking about cognitive computing.

Eric Schmidt Holds Forth on BBC Intelligent Machines Season

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As part of a BBC News series on AI and robotics, Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Alphabet, put together a short list of (Google-slanted) answers to the question of why it has taken artificial intelligence so long to make some “real progress.”

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