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I'd like to use Watson too. How do you get access to the API? How much does it cost?

The website for it is pretty vague.

It's pretty easy to sign up at https://www.ibmchefwatson.com/

It's free, and there's a pretty decent web UI once you're logged in.

I could be wrong, but I think the previous poster was asking about getting API access to Watson itself, not the cooking site.

We haven't released a direct API for Chef Watson yet. However, there's lots of different APIs that you can get access to via the Watson Developer Cloud (http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercl...). Probably one of the most interesting the new Natural Language Classifier API, which we just released last week (http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercl...) - you'll need to have a Bluemix (http://www.bluemix.net) account and then go down to Bluemix labs to get the service.