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Re:Ross: Attorney built on top of IBM's Watson by minthd on Thursday January 29, 2015 @07:33AM (#8965703)
Is there an amazing demo of this tech that i missed ? because if not-this is just another marketing site for watson/ibm, nothing more. we've seen plenty of those done by IBM- without much result yet(for example, where is watson the chef app they promised), 4 years after jeopardy.

So i think it's better to be skeptical.

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Re:Ross: Attorney built on top of IBM's Watson by jameshart on Thursday January 29, 2015 @09:14AM (#8966180)
Where is the Watson chef app? It's been writing a book: http://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Cooking-Chef-Watson-Innovati...

(disclosure: I work for IBM, not in the Watson group)

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Re:Ross: Attorney built on top of IBM's Watson by melchebo on Thursday January 29, 2015 @11:57AM (#8967297)
Chef website: http://www.bonappetit.com/entertaining-style/trends-news/art...

Request beta access: https://watson.ihost.com/watson/chefwatson/page/survey.html

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Re:Ross: Attorney built on top of IBM's Watson by minthd on Thursday January 29, 2015 @12:29PM (#8967566)
"fill up this survey, and you might win a change to test watson". Doesn't really inspire confidence. and maybe there's a good reason for that - like it's not ready for prime time, or for heavy testing by technologists ?

And that sound like what review says here[1]:

"it’s worth reiterating that, at this early stage, this software really does not stand on its own. That’s not to say it’s not useful (it is!) but it has a ways to go before it’s ready for prime time."

And since this is field nobody has tried to build apps for(because of limited commercial value),there's nothing to compare it to, which makes it harder to evaluate the tech.

[1]http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/let-ibms-chef-watson-create-tha...

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Re:Ross: Attorney built on top of IBM's Watson by minthd on Thursday January 29, 2015 @09:28AM (#8966270)
Again, we're looking for working technologies - not articles, movies or books.Its much easier to bullshit your way through a book than a working software - and comparing that to the state of the art and other commercial offerings.
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