In 2014 I wrote about my excitement over a demo of IBM Watson. I have recently heard about some familiar consumer tools that are using Watson and I revisited my post to see what’s changed over five years.
There are great case studies on IBM Watson here. It’s no surprise that this technology has gotten a lot of traction over the last five years.
One caveat I had when reviewing this tool in 2014 was that the data is only as good as how it’s communicated, and this still stands. Many analytics tools are doing a much better job of showing the quality of the underlying data and how reliable the predictions are, but there is still a level of understanding that is required when handling big data sets.
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