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IBM Says Watson AI Services Will Now Work on Any Cloud (reuters.com)
IBM announced on Tuesday that some of its Watson AI services will now work on rival cloud computing providers as it seeks to win over customers that want greater flexibility in how they store and analyze data. From a report: The announcement builds on IBM's moves to position its services as compatible with nearly any form of computer infrastructure a customer wants to operate. Other efforts include a pending acquisition of open-source software company Red Hat for $34 billion. With the change, companies will be able to use Watson AI tools such as Watson Assistant, which can help them develop conversational services such as a virtual customer service agent, in mobile apps hosted on Amazon and Microsoft as well as IBM servers.
True story!
It's technically possible to hook anything to anything in "the cloud". But the devil's in the details of coordinating communication conventions and data sharing (including non-sharing per security risk).
It's like saying, "At work I can punch anybody in the face I want". That is technically true.
Table-ized A.I.
I for one welcome our Skynet overlord.
Relevant capture: leaders
that is truly an impressive feat. is there a SW requirement for these?
https://scied.ucar.edu/webweather/clouds/cloud-types
This one will be incompatible with Watson. Not that I have a beef with IBM per say. But just because they say it will work on any cloud, just pings my marketing BS meter. Because it rely meant to say it will now work the the Major Cloud services. Not any one that can come up.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Hey Watson. I need you to access this. It's a test of prime factorization for school. You're swell Watson.
Sounds like they are just making APIs available offsite, so that you can ship requests/responses from your apps hosted at another cloud provider to/from Watson services.
I use IBM Cloud for some backend services for mobile apps, but we don't currently have any need for Watson. Surprised, though, this wasn't already possible, as it is for most other IBM Cloud services. (e.g. various database servers, COS (=S3), etc.
FWIW, super happy with IBM's latest iteration of PostgreSql as a service - Databases for PostgreSql (stupid name, I know - they are coming out with new offerings "Databases for this", "Databases for that", plug in your favorite database server name...) vs their previous offering Compose for PostgreSql. They fixed the pricing model - was based solely on storage with memory scaled with storage - dumb! Now it auto-scales for storage (duh) and you choose memory size. Much more performant, much lower pricing at least for our use case. (We need more RAM and less storage.) It's now built internally using Kubernetes, but that's all hands-off as it's a service. Just works, I've seen ours fail-over successfully to backup server in cluster once due to a hardware failure - with some latency for a while - and back after replacement of the hardware. Just works.
From the Onion, the headline on this made me laugh out loud.
How much capacity will HP's cloud users have access to?
1,000.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
BlameBillCosby.com
IBM SUCKS SHIT
I used Watson's language modules for a while until they cut me off and tried to sell me access. Wasn't worth it.
Poopy diapers turn me on.
I found some pricing: https://fredrikstenbeck.com/what-does-watson-cost-what-is-the-price/
Has anyone here used Watson? I'm curious what the process is - what if I wanted to upload 1000 documents and start asking natural language questions about their contents?