About three decades ago, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) created its first computer, the beginning of a technological revolution that would popularize the invention as a first breakthrough that would soon be unstoppable, without which the present would not be understood, so different from that first PC.
Now, in the era of Big Data, IBM presents Watson Discovery Advisor, a big data analysis platform launched by the company under a freemium model, which will offer its users basic free services and other more advanced or special paid services.
The technology allows prosecution large amounts of data collected from different departments of a company to solve problems or answer questions that arise at the research or business level.
The goal is to help streamline business management and also scientific research by providing intelligent solutions after a big data analysis whose results are conveyed through a human language.
The challenges of cognitive computing
The cognitive computingThird-generation information technology, term coined by Wang in 2002, gives the machine a function similar to that of the human brain, following the principles of neuroscience. It is about, definitely, to be inspired by the functioning of this organism to advance in the difficult but exciting path of artificial intelligence.
Classical computing development is only the paradigm that is intended to be challenged, directing technology like Watson to make possible a Interaction that allows finding answers to complex problems based on technologies that are also complex.
The Baylor College of Medicine used the tool to advance in a scientific research aiming to discover new substances that can interact with a certain protein related to cancer.
After analyzing the abstracts of some 70.000 scientific research articles on this same subject, Watson was able to identify six proteins as interesting for research. Its suggestions were seen as a major contribution, since reaching these conclusions would have required several years of work.
In addition to supporting R&D initiatives + or simply scientific research, according to IBM, the system can have applications to improve industrial management, from financial planning to, for instance, customer service.
At a corporate level, the bet on this technology means going beyond its semiconductor division, the company's most successful one, taking a step forward in diversification of the company, specifically for software tools and the cloud, analysts at the Wall Street Journal note.
It is not surprising that the decrease in IBM's hardware demand has substantially reduced the company's sales over the past two years, which ended up meaning the formation of the Watson Group, a division within the company that will focus on generating new uses for this advanced technology, which aims to “solve the problems of our time”, concludes John Gordon, vice president of this business unit.
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