IBM Announces New Watson AI, IBM Cloud Capabilities, Customers

IBM this afternoon issued several updates to its public cloud and Watson AI portfolios, including news that Aegean Airlines, BNP Paribas, ExxonMobil, Elaw Tecnologia SA (a Brazil-based legal management company) and Home Trust "are selecting IBM public cloud as their preferred destination for mission critical workloads," Big Blue said. On the AI front, IBM announced updates to its "Watson Anywhere" strategy designed to scale AI across any cloud and to ease AI implementations, according to the company. Drift Detection – Intended to address the concerns about data privacy and algorithm accountability, IBM announced the "Drift Detection" capability within Watson OpenScale, an AI platform launched last year to detect bias and to enable understanding of how AI arrived at its results. IBM said Drift Detection Drift Detection indicates how far a model has "drifted" by comparing production and training data and the resulting predictions it creates. Alerts are issued when a user-defined drift threshold is exceeded.