IBM is Deploying Its Watson AI to Help Governments Answer People's Covid-19 Questions (digitaltrends.com) 25
Digital Trends reports:
IBM's question-answering Watson A.I. is most famous for whooping the butt of human champions on quiz show Jeopardy. Now, IBM has repurposed its famous creation to help government agencies, health care organizations, and academic institutions around the world cope with the massive overload of questions that citizens have about the COVID-19 pandemic.
This is the first time that Watson has been used to help in a pandemic scenario.
A coronavirus-focused version of the Watson A.I. has been called into service as a virtual agent in places including Arkansas, California, Georgia, New York, and Texas in the United States, as well as the Czech Republic, Greece, Poland, Spain and U.K. It is capable of answering locally relevant questions, ranging from those about coronavirus symptoms and testing specifics to queries on things like social distancing. These consistent and accurate responses can be provided to citizens via voice calls or text chat...
Watson Assistant for Citizens pulls data from a range of external sources — local, national, and international.
Digital Trends got an interesting response from one consultant at IBM Watson Health who's an expert on digital health for the World Health Organization. "Our team is currently adding responses to psychological questions, by which a virtual nurse can help people to deal with their fears and emotional problems and provide comfort to them in these times."
This is the first time that Watson has been used to help in a pandemic scenario.
A coronavirus-focused version of the Watson A.I. has been called into service as a virtual agent in places including Arkansas, California, Georgia, New York, and Texas in the United States, as well as the Czech Republic, Greece, Poland, Spain and U.K. It is capable of answering locally relevant questions, ranging from those about coronavirus symptoms and testing specifics to queries on things like social distancing. These consistent and accurate responses can be provided to citizens via voice calls or text chat...
Watson Assistant for Citizens pulls data from a range of external sources — local, national, and international.
Digital Trends got an interesting response from one consultant at IBM Watson Health who's an expert on digital health for the World Health Organization. "Our team is currently adding responses to psychological questions, by which a virtual nurse can help people to deal with their fears and emotional problems and provide comfort to them in these times."
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I was thinking that your questions would be great to ask Watson. It'd be interesting to see what it comes up with. Then I saw...
"Our team is currently adding responses to psychological questions, by which a virtual nurse can help people to deal with their fears and emotional problems and provide comfort to them in these times." ...and realized that this is just meant to be a psychological placebo.
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It's a digital pamphlet. I guess it takes an AI to decide which bullet item to show.
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Sounds like Eliza. I see we've come a long way :)
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Watson's not a mainframe. Try using teh googols.
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You're an ignorant asshole. Check out the top 500 list and see what CPU the top two systems run. Yeah POWER9 from IBM. They also do healthy mainframe sales.
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As I mentioned above, Watson's not a mainframe. Nimbliusbum can't tell the difference.
On a related matter, I volunteer to test one of those Talos II workstations. Throw in a mid-level IBM i system, and I'll be set for a decade.
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The top thee systems on that list don't use the conventional CPUs as the compute elements. Summit and Sierra use the NVIDIA Volta GPGPUs as the compute elements, while the POWER9 processors are used for job management and collecting results. TaihuLight uses special vector processors as the compute elements.
On the bright side (Score:1)
...it'll probably give better answers than the President.
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Seems Watson got infected with a skinhead virus
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If it was real AI then yea, it would be possible.
Do not forget Tay bot... and how the internet turned the chat bot into a raving racist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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So does Eliza.
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Seriously, Watson is both the frontrunner and the pinnacle of the incredible hype cycle around big data.
Impressive... (Score:2)
questions it won't answer (Score:2)
Watson = BS (Score:1)
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I know that I am reading about some bullshit.
Elementary, my dear Watson.
didn't watson's brain get turned upside down (Score:1)
it's free! But first . . . (Score:2)
first & last name
location
edress
phone number
. . . If it costs you your identity, is it really free?
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