IBM debuts first Watson machine-learning APIs

Watson APIs are now available for public use, albeit only through IBM's Bluemix cloud services platform. IBM's Watson Developer Cloud now offers eight services for building what IBM describes as cognitive apps, with more services promised later on. The Relationship Extraction system seems less limited by available data than Machine Translation, but it is limited in different ways. When the Relationship Extraction system is fed the sentence "Nick Cave's new film '20,000 Days on Earth' debuted yesterday," it understood that "Nick Cave" was a person and that "yesterday" was a date, but didn't understand that "20,000 Days" referred to the title of a work.