People are using W.atson to do interesting things. Still annoyed about the last time I talked to someone from their team, but the technology is still cool.

Was about to link to the entry about that but realized I never wrote about it!

So the award I got a while back was part of a larger engineering conference. There were panels during the day about different topics and one was on technology trends in the health space. I mostly went to that one because my company sponsored it, but they also had someone from IB.M Wat.son there.

I’d been to a couple of their demos last year at the Business Analytics conference in Vegas and since then have been curious about how they manage the fears of cognitive computing technologies automating people out of jobs…like if you have research doctors who spend a lot of time doing work to figure out a prognosis, and you can outsource that to a computer…where do you draw the line about needing a person do that role at all?

I guess it was a sensitive topic because she kind of came for me. (Her answer was that Watson couldn’t replace a human’s person experience except that can because at the end of the day, human experience can be compiled as data and referenced like anything else) I went up to her after to provide context and she literally looked down her nose at me on me like I was rodent. Like her head was tilted up and she looked down on me.

When I finished talking, she asked my educational background, then talked to me like I was dumb…even stopped in the middle of responding to speak to someone nearby. It was literally “hey how are you? I remember you from last year! Do you remember me?”

Like the person had been standing there for a while…that couldn’t have waited?

Anyway, I was super bothered by that exchange…still am…

Regardless, still interested in following the work people are doing with Wat.son.

Personality Insights Demonstration

The W.atson Pe.rsonality Insi.ghts service uses linguistic analytics to extract a spectrum of cognitive and social characteristics from the text data that a person generates through blogs, tweets, forum posts, and more.

I of course put a blog post in. Here’s what it said about the last one :

*Compared to most people who participated in our surveys.

Also most needed harmony, stability, and structure.

Accurate for the span of time that was written in given that fam was in town and I was trying to limit time for my mom to see my hair. Also accurate in looking for people to fix stuff around the house and my car.

Would be interesting to submit all my blogs in there to see what it would say for a more accurate reading.

This could be a color quiz replacement!