{"id":34281,"date":"2012-08-28T21:09:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T21:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ibm_is_now_developing_its_supercomputer_watson_for_commercial_applications\/"},"modified":"2012-08-28T21:09:14","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T21:09:14","slug":"ibm_is_now_developing_its_supercomputer_watson_for_commercial_applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34281","title":{"rendered":"IBM is now developing its supercomputer &#34;Watson&#34; for commercial applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) researchers spent four years developing Watson, the computer smart enough to beat the champions of the quiz show \u201cJeopardy!\u201d\u009d Now they\u2019re trying to figure out how to get those capabilities into the phone in your pocket.<\/p>\n<p>Bernie Meyerson, IBM\u2019s vice president of innovation, envisions a voice-activated Watson that answers questions, like a supercharged version of Apple Inc. (AAPL)\u2019s Siri personal assistant. A farmer could stand in a field and ask his phone, \u201cWhen should I plant my corn?\u201d\u009d He would get a reply in seconds, based on location data, historical trends and scientific studies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-08-28\/ibm-creating-pocket-sized-watson-in-16-billion-sales-push-tech.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) researchers spent four years developing Watson, the computer smart enough to beat the champions of the quiz show \u201cJeopardy!\u201d\u009d Now they\u2019re trying to figure out how to get those capabilities into the phone in your<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34281\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,589,149,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}