IBM opens access to Watson's core machine learning component - SiliconANGLE

The last few years have seen IBM Corp. apply its Watson artificial intelligence to a wide variety of areas ranging from speech recognition to drug research. But the company can't address every single use case alone, a limitation that it's now looking to remove. IBM today unveiled a standalone implementation of the machine learning technology powering Watson that will enable organizations to adapt its capabilities for their specific requirements. The IBM Machine Learning platform aims to reduce the amount of effort it takes to develop, train and deploy a custom analytics model. "We are telling clients that you can get the power of machine learning across any type of data, whether its data in a warehouse, a database, unstructured content, email you name it, we are bringing machine learning everywhere," Rob Thomas, general manager of platform development at IBM Analytics, said in an interview today with theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media Inc.'s mobile video studio.