How many of you saw Jeopardy the past couple of days with IBM’s Watson supercomputer as a contestant? Watson competed in two shows against two of the winning-est HUMAN contestants in Jeopardy history–and Watson won handily. It’s responses were so quick that the other contestants could barely buzz in. And it’s accuracy was uncanny despite the awkward phrasing of some of the questions.
For those who witnessed this historic event, I’m sure the movie ‘Terminator‘ came to mind with a supercomputer causing the apocalypse when it became self-aware. I don’t think we have to worry about that for a long time, probably not in my life time, but I was thinking more along the lines of putting Watson in the Mobile Cloud and letting people ask it questions in natural language. There’s been plenty of human-based services for mobile Q&A through calling, texting and emailing, but this would bring 411 to a whole new level.
It boggles the mind what possbilities this would open up. On the Jeopardy program, IBM researchers were interviewed and they talked about Waltson’s applications for science, medicine and other noble causes, but c’mon Big Blue…if you can’t make money off Watson in the next year by hooking it up to the Mobile Cloud you should be ashamed. How about $0.50 text questions for Watson to answer? How about social networking games versus Watson? How about getting a recipe for dinner by entering in a few on-hand ingredients? How about using it as a better alternative to Microsoft Word’s grammar check?
What ideas do you have? Maybe we can rent some mainframe time on Watson from IBM.
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Tags: IBM, Mobile Cloud, Watson
And students with mobile devices can ask Watson for the answers to ALL of their test questions!
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If doctors can do in clinic, why can students do it during tests! http://www.cnbc.com/id/41636435
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