APIs are, or will be, putting cutting-edge capabilities in deep learning, cognitive computing, and artificial intelligence into the hands of developers everywhere.
Stacey Higginbotham, Senior Writer at Gigaom, is interviewing Elliot Turner, CEO of AlchemyAPI, and Stephen Gold, VP-WW Marketing and Sales Operations, Watson Solutions, IBM Software Group.
"How soon before developers can access computer vision capabilities?" Stacey asks. Turner: "We'll see more and more of this — it won't be called cognition or AI, it will just be solving real world problems — like helping the blind to see."
Stacey: "How much will cognition-as-a-service cost?" Gold: "The original Watson is now 90% smaller and 24 times more powerful…We'll see people who will pay for a given portion of that brain." (More on Watson.)
Okay, "but will cognition ever become a commodity?" Gold: "For the foreseeable future, I don't think that's in the picture." Turner: "We have seven billion people who can migrate skills and solve problems."
Stacey: "What do you tell your children about what you're doing?" Turner: "We need to move away from rote memorization." Gold: "There's a big movement in universities in how we educate. We need curriculums on how to build these cognitive capabilities."
(UPDATE: Here's an article I found that dives deeper, shall we say, into a topic addressed in this session: The Gigaom Guide to Deep Learning.)
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