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Serving Up Smarter Ways to Use Data
It’s a data-powered world out there—especially at the US Open. For over 25 years, IBM has collaborated with the U.S. Tennis Association to leverage data in rewarding ways for fans, coaches and players alike. This year, we’re demonstrating how these rewards extend far beyond the court. Our onsite experience at the Open shows not only how IBM technologies are being used to change the way fans experience tennis, but also how this same tech is applied to solve real world problems. Did you know Watson Visual Recognition can help identify players’ gestures during matches, as well as defects on a factory floor. Another Watson API, Sound Analysis, can derive insights from the intensity of crowd noise, and also detect wear-and-tear in elevators and train tracks. From the world of tennis to the world at large, IBM understands that well-wielded data can help unlock better experiences for all.
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Giving AI a lesson in humanity
AI is functional, but can it be friendly? Soul Machines believes so. They’re a company working to enhance the way we interact with systems like virtual tutors and digital assistants that are powered by AI. Soul Machines taps the talents of AI researchers, neuroscientists, psychologists, artists, and other innovative thinkers to help create personable “digital humans” that run on the backbone of IBM Watson—specifically, Watson Assistant, which powers the AI’s dialog interface. By creating approachable AI-powered helpers, Soul Machines is helping ensure you’ll walk away from machine interactions with a smile on your face.
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Watson does Wimbledon
In honor of All-England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) 150th anniversary, IBM Watson created the 2018 Official Championship Poster (above). To make it, Watson was taught to recognize all the various photographic elements such as grass, crowds, court, etc. Then, Watson sifted through 150 years of archived Wimbledon photography – over 300,000 photos – and stitched the images together in the appropriate areas, based on color and content. The final photo mosaic is comprised of over 8,000 images, and, thanks to its pointillist quality, looks simultaneously modern and timeless. Beyond art-making, Watson’s visual recognition skills can help businesses in a broader sense, too, helping to classify wide categories of visual content.
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The Highlight Machine
FOX Sports has collaborated with IBM to create the Highlight Machine, a powerful platform that uses AI to archive and curate over 98,000 hours of video clips, game highlights and historical footage from soccer’s biggest tournament. Built with IBM Watson Media’s AI video technology and IBM iX’s user experience expertise, the platform is designed so that soccer fans don’t miss a single play, penalty kick, or goal. Fans can browse the massive archive and build their own personalized highlight reels, sorting and saving clips by year, team, player, match, and play type. And thanks to the processing power of Watson, the clips are available just seconds after the action ends in the match. It’s another way for fans all over the world to enjoy the Beautiful Game.
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Fighting Cyberbullying with AI
Cyberbullying has many people rallying in opposition, but it’s notoriously difficult to fight. One company, Identity Guard, is helping to combat this critical issue. To monitor for and promote adult intervention on cyberbullying across social platforms like Tumblr, Identity Guard leverages IBM Watson’s natural language processing and natural language classification to help extract, filter, understand and categorize the content of their user’s social media feeds. If potential threatening material is identified, parents are sent resources on how to intervene and alleviate the situation. As one component of a multi-pronged cyberbullying detection service, IBM Watson is helping companies like Identity Guard protect kids while giving them space to explore and express themselves online.
See how IBM Watson is a secret weapon against cyberbullying ->
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“Growth and Comfort Never Co-exist”
Growing up with a single mother and three siblings, Ginni Rometty, Chairman, President and CEO of IBM, learned the importance of a good work ethic at an early age. Ginni took these lessons to heart, from school to the workplace. “We learned you never let someone define who you are,” Ginni says. “Only you define who you are.” She earned a degree in engineering from Northwestern University (where she was also the valedictorian of her graduating class) and, in 2011, became the first female CEO of IBM. Today, Ginni defines what it means to be a strong, positive role model for women everywhere.
Identity Protection with the Power of AI
Last year, 16.7 million Americans were victims of identity theft. Intersections, an identity theft protection company, has collaborated with IBM Watson to help keep your identity protected. Their service, Identity Guard, uses AI to monitor huge volumes of structured and unstructured data to find information related to potential identity threats such as data breaches, point-of-sale malware and software vulnerabilities. If a customer is at risk, it issues alerts for potential identity theft within seconds – instead of 1-3 days, which is how long it used to take the company to react to the same kind of threats.
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World Rhino Day 2018
Each year, World Rhino Day celebrates rhinos and the people and organizations that help protect and support them. IBM believes deeply in protecting the endangered species, and is proud to collaborate with Welgevonden Game Reserve, using the IBM Cloud, IoT and predictive analytics to help protect rhinos from poachers. From all of us at IBM, here’s to wishing rhinos everywhere a happy World Rhino Day!
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AI-Companion In Space
It’s always good to have some help – especially when you’re going into space. Today, CIMON, a mobile astronaut assistance system, is going to be launched into space to accompany German astronaut Alexander Gerst on his second 6-month mission to the International Space Station. Developed by Airbus and IBM for the German Aerospace Center, CIMON (which stands for Crew Interactive Mobile Companion) is enabled by Watson. Using IBM’s Watson technology, CIMON will help Gerst perform certain tasks and experiments. CIMON can also potentially serve as an early warning system for any technical issues on board. The duo is one more example of what man + machine can do.
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The sweet sounds of AI-powered collaboration
While working with R&B musician H.E.R. on a new track, music producer Alex Da Kid wanted to add another voice. With the help of IBM Watson and Spotify, he discovered the perfect collaborator who brought the texture he was searching for: Rapsody. Check out their recently-released song, “Go.”
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TJBot, your friendly neighborhood weather-bot
What can TJBot do? That’s a long list, but we’ll start with the weather. TJWeather is a recipe you can implement that leverages Watson’s Speech to Text and Text to Speech APIs as well as the IBM Weather Insights API, enabling TJBot to tell you the forecast when you ask for it. Another recipe, Weatherbot, gives TJBot the power to forecast rain and tell you the temperature using his arm and head-light—one quick glance at TJBot before you’re out the door will let you know if you need to grab a jacket or an umbrella. Give these recipes a try before you get caught out in the cold without your coat!
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Hey, friends! I haven’t been on tumblr for a while (first I got locked out and couldn’t get a password reset, then the shift away from allowing adult content soured me - I don’t produce it myself, but I have friends who do, and tumblr was one of the few places that marginalized creators could share healthy, adult-oriented content, so I stopped trying to access my account/feed). BUT my Sherlock Holmes Collection kickstarter is wrapping up (ten days left) and I wanted to share it with those of you who follow me on this platform but not the other ones.
It’s a bunch of wooden Sherlock Holmes characters, all researched from the canon. I hope you’ll check it out, I spent a lot of time and energy and love on them and I hope you’ll like ‘em.
CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT THE KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN
-Chris
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At first:
Later:
Actually Martin Freeman and a dog this time.
Sorry that I ghosted all of you, life got crazy but I’m back now! So please feel free to send in any asks or requests and I’ll do my best to respond to them.
