When I asked IBM's Jeffrey Stylos (Software Engineer, Watson Platform Services) how this was superior to a mere spreadsheet, he replied, "This is due to the server-side analysis that automatically culls provably suboptimal choices. For example, in the Finance data set on the demo, 86 of the 115 input options are automatically elided." (He wasn't able to go into more detail on how this service will be explicitly powered by Watson, saying only, "There are lots of long-term plans for Watson.") Watson is said to cull the data intelligently, although details are still vague. IBM Watson's Tradeoff Analytics system creates an interactive decision-making tool from a supplied data set. IBM's live demonstration includes interactive examples like choosing a mutual fund based on multiple criteria (minimal risk, maximal long-term return, and so on) or selecting the best phone based on price. The new services, announced earlier today in a blog post, cover five new beta services: speech to text, text to speech, visual recognition, concept insights, and trade-off analytics. The last of those is a common in business decision-making one provides a set of data and the service attempts to determine the best options for behaviors. With it comes a paradox: The most immediately useful services aren't very impressive yet, while the more technologically impressive services might struggle to find an audience or face competition from existing services. IBM has unveiled five new in-beta services for Watson Developer Cloud, its Bluemix-hosted system for creating applications that plug into the machine learning service. IBM's Watson now (sort of) knows a cat when it sees one.
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