Current and former insiders shed light on IBM's missteps with Watson, as IBM takes a less ambitious approach to commercializing Watson in the corporate market
IBM's artificial intelligence was supposed to transform industries and generate riches for the company. Neither has panned out. Tweets: @counternotions , @leapingrobot , @scottnations , @patentology ...
Google's new look for desktop search results blurs the lines between ads and search results, leading many critics to identify it as a dark pattern
is it a problem? [Poll] Deanna Ting / Digiday : Google's latest search results change further blurs what's an ad Doug Turnbull / OpenSource Connections : Opening up search is an ethical imperative Nat...
Inside the world of private Facebook Groups, which can shield communities from trolls and toxic content, and how women use them
give people space & acceptance for their candidate fandom. As @annehelen explains: The internet is both the venue for that fandom and the reason that comfortable space is needed. Anne Helen Petersen /...
Amazon tests pricing for Alexa skills, launching paid subs and offering monetization for devs, starting with Jeopardy! skill from Sony Pictures Television
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Amazon brings personalized sports updates, movie theater details to Echo
James Risley / GeekWire : … Updates to Amazon's Alexa virtual assistant are coming in thick and fast, with Jeopardy! showing up on the Echo smart speaker last week and the ability to start your car c...
IBM's Watson Group Makes First Startup Investment In “Social Health Management” Pioneer, Welltok
Remember Watson? Yes, the artificially intelligent, question-answering computer system developed by IBM that trounced two former champions on Jeopardy like they were a couple of kindergartners.
IBM offers companies tools to apply AI for analyzing their customers' social media streams
IBM's Next Big Thing: Psychic Twitter Bots — Using some of the same technologies that allowed the Watson natural language supercomputer to conquer Jeopardy, IBM's next step …
IBM Watson's next adventure: Healthcare with Nuance
IBM has said its Watson computer would be applied beyond Jeopardy and now is making good on that promise. IBM and Nuance Communications have launched a research program to commercialize Watson for th...
Jeopardy, IBM, and Wolfram|Alpha
About a month before Wolfram|Alpha launched, I was on the phone with a group from IBM, talking about our vision for computable knowledge in Wolfram|Alpha. A few weeks later, the group announced that ...
Yahoo's Deal With Current TV In Jeopardy, Two Months After Launch
This is a surprise, but not really, considering the troubles Yahoo is going through now: Current TV's distribution/joint venture deal with Yahoo is in peril, reports News.com. "Current is exploring b...