Watson is about to take a GIANT leap forward!
IBM has announced Project Intu, "that’s designed to enable what it calls “embodied cognition” in a range of devices. ... So, for example, developers will be able to use Project Intu’s capabilities to embed machine learning capabilities into pretty much any kind of device, ... because Project Intu is system-agnostic, developers can use it to build cognitive experiences on a wide range of operating systems, be it Raspberry PI, MacOS, Windows or Linux."
I'll go out on a limb here and predict that Project Intu's learning capability will be more than just a "Seri" type of remotely accessed database. I suspect that IBM will employ a form of distributing processing where, upon being deployed upon a device, Intu will "borrow" some of that device's RAM and CPU cycles to add to Intu's total capacity, thus significantly increasing its power. When Skype first came out they did something similar, using Peer-to-Peer capabilities to off load Skype's network demands from Skype's servers to Skype user's HD and RAM. Windows users were given settings to turn off the use of RAM and HD when Skype was closed, but Linux users were not. When Microsoft bought Skype they destroyed Skype's P2P and created a Linux database farm to do the same thing. AND, they patented spyware called "Legal Intercept", which allowed anyone to spy on supposedly encrypted voice and video conversations of Skype users. Government agents around the world were given access to the Linux servers running Legal Intercept in order to spy on whom ever.
Intu, a form of Watson, would add significant power to English language queries on a PC, and at the same time be able to learn and add to its storehouse of knowledge. Within 10 years I predict that with Intu we will have the ability to communicate with our devices as if they were other people. The Turing Test fulfilled like we never dreamed possible.
I'll go out on a limb here and predict that Project Intu's learning capability will be more than just a "Seri" type of remotely accessed database. I suspect that IBM will employ a form of distributing processing where, upon being deployed upon a device, Intu will "borrow" some of that device's RAM and CPU cycles to add to Intu's total capacity, thus significantly increasing its power. When Skype first came out they did something similar, using Peer-to-Peer capabilities to off load Skype's network demands from Skype's servers to Skype user's HD and RAM. Windows users were given settings to turn off the use of RAM and HD when Skype was closed, but Linux users were not. When Microsoft bought Skype they destroyed Skype's P2P and created a Linux database farm to do the same thing. AND, they patented spyware called "Legal Intercept", which allowed anyone to spy on supposedly encrypted voice and video conversations of Skype users. Government agents around the world were given access to the Linux servers running Legal Intercept in order to spy on whom ever.
Intu, a form of Watson, would add significant power to English language queries on a PC, and at the same time be able to learn and add to its storehouse of knowledge. Within 10 years I predict that with Intu we will have the ability to communicate with our devices as if they were other people. The Turing Test fulfilled like we never dreamed possible.
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