Watson goes SaaS

As you may remember, IBM nominated its computer ‘Watson’ to compete in the game Jeopardy against Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter.
(You can watch short reminder here )

Watson is a mash up of various IBM and open source technologies, both hardware and software. In IBM’s words, it is an advanced natural language processing, information retrieval, knowledge representation, automated reasoning, and machine learning system in the field of open domain question answering. In simple terms, this means ‘Watson’ is capable of understanding a question and coming up with the most probable answer.

The exciting part is that this technology will be now available to developers. Developers can now build their own expert systems in medicine, business, technology, law, science and other fields using ‘Watson’ in the backend.

If you would like to try to work with Watson, this link can get you started.