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Watson Personal Assistant Beta

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Anything labeled Watson get out the checkbook!!! My guess is that this thing will do less than Amazon Lex and cost $$$$.

Reading the buzz on the page, I don't see any difference between this and the chat api Watson released last year. The one they wanted like $60K for my startup to use for 50 conversations a day....A DAY!!!

Watson == overhyped, devalued brand

Hey, shoot me a message. This can't be right.

I would need some sort of contact details to shoot you a message, or perhaps I'm not kewl enough to know how to do that in hacker news... This thread leads me to believe that it can't be done, but that was nearly 3000 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1028763

fair enough. lutzflor [_at_] de.ibm.com

IBM's Watson is a brand, not a product - and there are certainly good and bad products under the brand. I wonder on which side this particular instance is at.

> Beta Cloud Services are not designed to comply with any specific governmental regulation or specific security measures. Client agrees not to input content that may be subject to any such regulations or required additional security measures.

Beware if your IBMid is on behalf of your company / you as an employee. At least in the EU, there's hardly any (real) data you could use for WPA development at this time.

I'm sure general consumer protection laws apply. I think this is specifically addressing things like HIPPA and FIPS. Most of IBM's systems would be designed with those in mind, this is just clarifying that it's not yet.

Opened this on a phone, regretted it. Time to send a PR.

Used Chrome's "Make page mobile friendly" and could finally read the damn text.

Where is that button?

It shows up on detected articles but I configured it to show up everywhere because most sites need it. There's probably an article out there somewhere. You have to change something in about:config

<frameset> history does repeat.

Yep, I had to "request desktop site" in Firefox.

It's not any better in IE on desktop. (at work, not my choice of navigator).

too little too late? IBM Watson has been around almost as long as google. You would think they would have shipped some pay-as-you-go API years ago.

Where is pay as you go missing? Pretty much every Watson service is available as pay-as-you-go.

Definitely not mobile friendly.

Is there a way bring the Alexa skills here?

This looks interesting but it took me far too many clicks to join the wait list.

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