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Thursday, December 10, 2020

IBM Delivers New AI Capabilities

New developments from IBM, and based on this it seems they are attempting to make AI easier to use and deliver.   Notably things like delivering FAQ is the simplest thing you might want to provide information quickly in a conversation.    And Explain-ability to needed convince.  Plus the ability to translate existing documents into usable intelligence.  All things we did with early AI efforts. so I  see this as good direction for Watson.

IBM announces new AI language, explainability, and automation services

Kyle Wiggers  @Kyle_L_Wiggers   In Venturebeat December 9, 2020 5:00 AM

During IBM’s virtual AI Summit this week, the company announced updates across its Watson family of products in the areas of language, explainability, and workplace automation. A new feature called Reading Comprehension surfaces answers from databases of enterprise documents in response to natural language questions, assigning a confidence score to each response. A novel module in Watson Assistant called FAQ Extraction automatically generates question-and-answer documents. And AI Factsheets automatically captures key facts on a machine learning model’s performance and generates reports to “foster transparency and ensure compliance.”

According to IBM, Reading Comprehension, which was built atop a top-performing question-answering system from IBM Research, is intended to help identify more precise answers in response to queries referring to business documents. Reading Comprehension provides scores that indicate how confident the system is in each answer and is currently in beta in IBM’s AI-powered search service Watson Discovery.    ... "

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