{"id":15406,"date":"2011-02-21T21:09:04","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T02:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=15406"},"modified":"2011-02-22T16:28:29","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T21:28:29","slug":"ibm%e2%80%99s-watson-jeopardy-stunt-unleashes-a-third-great-cycle-in-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/02\/21\/ibm%e2%80%99s-watson-jeopardy-stunt-unleashes-a-third-great-cycle-in-computing\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM\u2019s Watson Jeopardy stunt unleashes a third great cycle in computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/markpmills\/2011\/02\/21\/ibms-watson-jeopardy-stunt-unleashes-a-third-great-cycle-in-computing\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>IBM\u2019s Watson Jeopardy stunt unleashes a third great cycle in computing<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from blogs.forbes.com by Mark Mills<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The news is under Watson\u2019s hood, which signals a new era of intuitive computing and wide horizons for IBM. The implications are far-reaching despite some misguided sniffs of  derision from artificial intelligence cognoscenti, and are well beyond a  single column. But let\u2019s briefly consider two things; what it means  for companies in IBM\u2019s ecosystem, and what it implies about the emerging  era of<strong> intuitive computing and The Cloud.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Watson is not the epitome but the beginning of the next era of <strong>intuitive  computing.<\/strong> Sitting by itself, stationary in a studio, Watson did well.  \u00a0Thrown in to the real world it would do less well with context-laden  questions you might ask, far from home, about your flight delayed by  storms.<\/p>\n<p>Also see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/02\/20\/133916058\/the-dark-side-of-watson?sc=17&amp;f=1019\"><strong>The dark side of Watson &#8212; NPR<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM\u2019s Watson Jeopardy stunt unleashes a third great cycle in computing &#8212; from blogs.forbes.com by Mark Mills The news is under Watson\u2019s hood, which signals a new era of intuitive computing and wide horizons for IBM. The implications are far-reaching despite some misguided sniffs of derision from artificial intelligence cognoscenti, and are well beyond a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[356,208,45,206],"tags":[125,19,591,676],"class_list":["post-15406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-cloud-based-computing-apps","category-computer-science","category-trends","tag-ai","tag-cloud-computing","tag-computer-science","tag-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15406"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15484,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15406\/revisions\/15484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}