“If we can do it, anyone can do it!” That was the message from Monash students who were at the IBM Watson demonstration held at their office. The students were of non-IT backgrounds and had little or no experience with coding or creating bots, but were able to easily use the analytics provided by IBM to derive search queries and insights.
The event was held to understand more about the potential of IBM Watson Conversation & Watson Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and for the media present to get a rare opportunity to see the future of man-machine interactions. Present at the demonstration was Ms. Chong Chye Neo, Managing Director of IBM Malaysia.
IBM Watson is a cognitive intelligent system that uses natural language processing and machine learning to reveal insights from large amount of unstructured data. It has the capability to tackle tough problems in every industry from healthcare to finance.
Ms Chong says in IBM, AI stands for Augmented Intelligence and that IBM plans to usher in the era of AI in a responsible and human friendly manner.
Prior to the demonstration conducted by the students from Monash, IBM personnel Zainal Azman Shaari and Cheok Swin Voon from IBMs Eco-system Development team developed the app on Telegram and demonstrated the AI’s uses which included being able to pull data from other API’s to complete tasks.
By simply requesting by voice command or typing in the request, Watson was able to reply, both by voice, as well as in text format to the requests. From the latest movies and viewing times, to local restaurants based on the desires of the user, Watson had instant and almost zero latency in replying the requests.
In the first half of 2017, IBM Malaysia conducted two hands-on workshops for coders and developers to program on IBM Bluemix Cloud platform. Ten of the 30 coders were certified upon completion.
Jimmy Kwang, General Manager, Software Group IBM Malaysia shared that when SMS first emerged in our lives, we discovered a way to communicate quietly. No need to shout over the static buzz on the phone.
“Some of us discovered ambidexterity –we could type with both the left and right thumbs! Speech took a back seat. Until now. Instead of typing on our phones, we want to talk to it –to instruct it to do things for us. If we had our way, we would be talking to the microwave and fridge like we hope to talk to our cars – soon”, he joked.
He added that for IBM, cognitive is much more than seeing patterns in data or translating speech into text and then putting it into a search engine. It’s about systems that make sense of all sorts of data, which reason, which learn, which interact naturally with humans. Cognitive systems can learn continually, augmenting our own expertise so we can immediately take more informed actions. Cognitive systems can interact with us and with our customers in natural language, breaking down barriers between humans and machine, creating unique, user experiences.
“Which brings us there today. We invited you to take part in little experiment of what goes under the hood in developing cognitive applications. Over the last two quarters, we have provided free Bluemix training to 30 developers and coders. Ten coders are certified on Bluemix. Some of them are here today. We believe cognitive technologies will dominate the future. Deloitte report on consumer trends found that innovation is in the areas of voice and virtual reality/augmented reality capabilities.”
He explained that the team fitted Watson with two different set of APIs that give it the ability to both comprehend and respond to human interactions: Natural Language Understanding (NLU) & Watson Conversation. The Natural Language Understanding API allows Watson to analyze text to extract meta-data from content such as keywords, entities, sentiment, emotion, relations and many more. Watson Conversation, on the other hand, functions as a visual dialog builder that helps create natural conversations for Watson that can be deployed on chatbots and other virtual agents.
“Watson is currently available for both large and small enterprises and IBM remains an enterprise driven organisation and we look forward to support both large and small enterprises,” he said.
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