IBM Watson is starting to think in Japanese, with Softbank’s help

Watson, IBM’s massively intelligent, cognitive computer, has many skills. It can play and win at Jeopardy, diagnose PTSD, deep-dive our tweets and cook up delicious recipes from seemingly incongruous ingredients

But understanding and thinking in Japanese is not one of them. Not yet, at least.

Tuesday in Tokyo, IBM and Japanese telecom conglomerate Softbank announced a landmark partnership that will bring Watson to Japan — and a far deeper understanding of Japanese to Watson

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Prior to this effort, IBM had been working to translate Japanese (and other languages) to English (and back to Japanese). This partnership with Softbank, however, is different Read more...

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