After attending this year’s All About the Cloud, Abdullah Mashuk shared a summary about the IBM Watson and the Cloud: Implications of the Next Generation of Computing Presentation.
Presenter: Stephen Gold, IBM Corporation
Discussion Points:
- Watson had 70% unaided awareness within American population. In jeopardy Watson needed to wait 3 second before buzzing to answer a question affirmatively.
- Watson helps convert unstructured data into something meaningful
- Trillion interconnected devices 2 billion mobile devices driving information’s. Information is becoming new oil. Oil in the ground does not have much value, but once it extracted refined then it had value. Information has same implication. Big data by itself is not that interesting, but what you do it can be insightful.
- Next generation system will be learning system, systems that are not just programs, but systems that are taught. System that will get smarter with each iteration, with each outcome, with each new information.
- On big difference between programmatic system vs. learning system is the notion search vs. discovery.
- Next generation of system will be about bringing back relevant information.
- Deterministic vs. probabilistic system. 2+2 may not always 4 it may have probabilistic answer.
- 90% of current world data is collected within the last two years
- 80% of data is unstructured
- Only 20% of date currently leveraged by traditional system.
- 83% CIO thinks big data / analytics is important
- Differences among Watson and other systems is Watson’s ability of Natural Language processing. Its ability to break question into sub components and evaluate each components for possible answer/solution.
- IBM Watson use case in health care – Medical information will be doubled by the time a med student finish the entire curriculum. It will be impossible consume all the data. 81% physicians spends 5 hours or less per month on medical journal. Watson can process vast number of information and help a doctor quickly diagnose a patient and prescribe right medicine. Watson currently being used in pre-authorized treatments. Announced development partnership with cancer care institute.
- Other use case can be in financial services industries.
- IBM Watson is delivered as a service through cloud. (public/private/hybrid)