Anyone Can Now Use IBM's Watson to Crunch Data for Free

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Have a bunch of numbers to crunch or a theory that needs proving and nowhere free to turn to? Say hello to your new best friend in the computing field; no other than that Jeopardy playing super-computer, IBM’s Watson. IBM has opened up access to Watson as part of a beta program. :cool:

Users of Watson Analytics feed in their own raw data, say, in the form of a spreadsheet, which the service then crunches with its own statistical analysis to highlight associations between different variables.
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That sounds interesting. But if they want to commercialize it, why don't they just have it like they did on Jeopardy, where you can ask it a question and it gives the answer. That would definitely take business away from search engines.
 
BladeVenom said:
That sounds interesting. But if they want to commercialize it, why don't they just have it like they did on Jeopardy, where you can ask it a question and it gives the answer. That would definitely take business away from search engines.
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and then EU would step in and vote antitrust on IBM :D
 
BladeVenom said:
That sounds interesting. But if they want to commercialize it, why don't they just have it like they did on Jeopardy, where you can ask it a question and it gives the answer. That would definitely take business away from search engines.
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Because it's no better than a search engine in that capacity :rolleyes:. They are letting people use Watson for things that need calculation/analyis. This is really cool, if I already didn't have access to a supercomputer I'd be all over this.
 
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