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I’ve been looking into the services provided by Watson. I’m really impressed. Is this something that could be implemented like the other services we have, like Bing and Microsoft? They have a 10,000 a month limit.
I agree with DJ, my findings were the same as his and there are no toes to step on because I'm not working on any plugin for Watson services.
I did create an account to continue to education myself on their services, however I have no plans to create a plugin or any applications to the IBM services at this time. As DJ stated, their cognitive services are substantially the same as many of the other services from Microsoft and Diaglogflow (AI.API) where we already have plugins.
@Nink as one of my rules for brain building and artificial intelligences I would "use the tools you have" before seeking additional new tools. Because the Watson services are not going to provide you anything net new, it would provide you a similar duplicate service with the name of "Watson" on it and the requirement to manage an IBM account on your part.
hi @justinRatliff I really want to work with Watson as I have some other tools I have been working with in bluemix in the back end that I need to integrate with. I know we have google and MS integration today and I have played with both of them.
I can't afford to personally pay for someone to develop these plugins but I am happy to donate $500 in EZ-Robot products out of my own pocket to someone who can help build the plugins.
What specific services of Watson are you looking for?
@DJ, Thanks for kind words, doing good plugins is a consequence of two things: no timelines and being the developer & client, although between my day job clients stress or my kids asking why it takes too long... the difference is subtle
Regarding the Watson, i worked in a project and we evaluated a few services. I can not give any information about that particular project at this time since I've signed a NDA, all I can say is Watson maturity is very good.
Microsoft improved a lot and eventually will become stronger, due to their development and Azure communities.
For non professional markets with less complexity, more usability/easy interfaces, affordable the best choice is API.AI. Google is increasing and adapting their cloud services so can be a good for the API.AI/DialogFlow community.
Amazon & Apple they have their own agenda, unless your target is the final consumer/their clients does not make sense create/adapt your product.
As Microsoft professional I'm very happy with Azure and their Cognitive APIs although i think the Cortana is last compared with Alexa, Google, Siri.
**EDIT: Not WIT.AI but API.AI, i cut the post text where i mentioned WIT.AI/FB integration but it was not relevant.
@Nink,
DJ's:
Are you using NodeRED ? I presume you want to explore the conversation api ?
Interestingly enough, I was contacted by a company that will be demonstrating Watson. It is utilizing the Watson they trained with 1000 people. They wanted to up the Wow factor by utilizing Alena as a visual approach to their Watson. Alena doesn’t need to run Watson to be useful to them as I can pipe in any audio thru Alena and Alan.
But... I’d be up for PTP working on a plugin, because we all know it would be amazing.
Hi @DJ and @PTP I am trying to do a couple of things.
Using Node red and NodeJS, There is an Intu robot control program and it has a .net instance that looked interesting https://rg-gateway.mybluemix.net/ But really I wanted
I want to ask EZB to recognize an object and then interact with the object using voice commands.
Have you tried using The Robot Program to teach ARC using object recognition? You can add speech recognition to it as well. What are you looking to do? There's already that functionality in ARC, and we provide great The Robot Program episodes on how to do it. Have you started there?