IBM Watson

Cognitive computing is primarily a marketing term indicating a computing service that is able to understand, reason and learn from the data it is supplied with. In essence it is the application of machine learning and artificial intelligence to data processing. IBM is the flag bearer for cognitive computing. Presumably it wanted…

Chatbots are being touted as the new killer app. They are programs that can hold a conversation with a person on any of the text messaging platforms – Facebook Messenger , Telegraph, Slack etc. Since messaging has recently overtaken the use of social networks in terms of usage, it seems…

IBM Watson Review Summary IBM Watson is essentially a platform for analyzing language, speech and visual data – the first of these being the main emphasis. Watson’s capabilities were well demonstrated when it beat leading contestants in the game of Jeopardy. It was a good publicity stunt, but applications in…

These free machine learning services are mostly throttled versions of the commercial service. wit.io is different, but having been acquired by Facebook this may change. Amazon Machine Learning is a service that makes it easy for developers of all skill levels to use machine learning technology. Amazon Machine Learning provides visualization…

Updated 21 March 2016 Machine Learning as a Service Platforms 2016 Machine learning is a nebulous term used to address capabilities such as face recognition, speech recognition, natural language processing, predictive analytics and specific techniques such as deep learning (deep neural networks). All the services listed below provide APIs so…