Developers
Behind the Code: Meet Bill Higgins
April 29, 2019 | Developers
We're excited to kick off a new series for the Watson blog, focusing on AI and the developers at IBM Watson. AI is one of the hottest topics in tech, and we want to take a deep dive into AI, but more importantly, for you to get to know the people that help bring Watson to life. To kickoff the series, meet Bill Higgins, distinguished engineer, AI for developers, data and AI. ...read more
Updates to Watson Visual Recognition – Price reduction for Custom Classification, and Food and Explicit Models are now GA
June 26, 2018 | AI for the Enterprise, Developers, Watson APIs
Announcing updates to the IBM Watson Visual Recognition: A price reduction for Custom Classification events, and two models becoming generally available. Our blog highlights all these exciting changes. ...read more
How to prepare and clean data through quick operations, data profiles and visualization
June 8, 2018 | AI for the Enterprise, Data Science, Developers...
IBM Watson Studio and Watson Knowledge Catalog include Data Refinery for self-service data preparation. Data Refinery puts data pre-processing and feature engineering in the hands of data scientists, enabling faster data insights. ...read more
IBM Watson and Topcoder – Building cost effective chatbots for your business
May 31, 2018 | AI for the Enterprise, Conversational Services, Developers
Topcoder is home to the world’s largest network of designers, developers, and data scientists. Working with IBM and Topcoder, you can get a business ready low cost chatbot built with Watson Assistant for just $10,000 in just 2-6 weeks ...read more
How IBM is improving Watson Visual Recognition capabilities
March 15, 2018 | Developers, News and Updates
We’ll be announcing a number of changes to the Watson Visual Recognition service at Think 2018, IBM’s flagship conference, on March 19-22. These updates will include new feature capabilities, developer tools and improvements to user experience. ...read more
The code of ethics for AI and chatbots that every brand should follow
October 15, 2017 | AI for the Enterprise, Conversational Services, Developers
While chatbots continue to grow in popularity, businesses often overlook important issues related to morals and ethics of chatbots and AI. Customers need to know when they are communicating with a machine, and that brands will protect their privacy and data in today’s interconnected world. ...read more
Announcing new service changes and upgrades to Watson Tone Analyzer
September 26, 2017 | AI for the Enterprise, Developers, Watson APIs
We're excited to announce new changes to the Watson Tone Analyzer service that reflect user feedback. Three key changes include removing social tones, combining anger and disgust tones and outputting only dominant tones for text. These changes are active as of September 25. Learn more. ...read more
Hiring Heroes: How Woodside Energy works with IBM Watson
September 11, 2017 | AI for the Enterprise, Developers, Discovery and Exploration
Key points: – Woodside Energy has been working with Watson to make decades of expertise available to its engineers. – Watson ingested the equivalent of 600,000 pages of information, or 30 years of knowledge – Watson helped reduce the time spent searching for expert knowledge by 75% Woodside Energy is Australia’s largest independent oil ...read more
Building better chatbots: Two questions to ask before you get started
August 10, 2017 | AI for the Enterprise, Conversational Services, Developers...
Chatbots are the new apps, offering scalable, instantaneous, 24x7 interaction that is difficult to achieve with human agents. Learn how an IBMer built a chatbot that could answer questions about herself — an interactive, conversational resumé of sorts. Through trial and error, she found two important considerations to take into account when building a chatbot. ...read more