Understanding IBM Watson

Watson has it's visualisation tool called WatsonPaths to show how it has derived answers logically. AI needs large amounts of data and Google, Facebook and Amazon are sitting very pretty in this space. IBM will probably be unable to match either of the 3 – but if it becomes an industry expert – it will mint money in the more expensive and much needed business vertical. To be fair, IBM seems to be transparent on this topic. In this case – they're rolling it out for free!!! Well – upto a point IBM Bluemix services helps with development of a rapid prototype solution.