IBM Watson To Battle Patent Trolls

MrSeb writes "IBM's Watson is made of many parts: speech recognition, natural language processing, machine learning, and data mining. All of these factors were perfectly combined to beat Ken Jennings in Jeopardy, and now each of these components are slowly finding their way into other applications. Health plan company WellPoint, for example, is using Watson to investigate patient records to improve diagnosis, and in a self-referential, possibly universe-destroying twist, IBM itself is using Watson to help sell Watson (and other IBM products) to other companies. Now, using Watson's data mining and natural language talents, IBM has created the Strategic IP Insight Platform, or SIIP, a tool that has already scanned millions of medical patents and journals for the sake of improving drug discovery — and in the future, it's easy to see how the same tool could be used to battle patent trolling, too."

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[ae1294]

..can someone send the patent office one of these machines for the love of god!

I'm afraid I can't let you do that

[Superken7]

I'm afraid I can't let you patent rectangular shapes, Apple

If they really wanted to have it profitable

[Anonymous Coward]

Train the Watson AI how to make executive and upper level management decisions. It would be possible to achieve the same results, but without the huge overhead of golden parachutes and high salaries. What remains could be summed up as profit.

Re:Misleading headline?

[LionKimbro]

We should have Watson fact-check Slashdot story submissions.

Re:Provided their own training material

[Freshly Exhumed]

The ultimate question has already been answered: 42.