Bengaluru: With an increased demand for advanced artificial intelligence (AI) across businesses, IBM has rolled out advanced AI based solutions under Watson that can read and analyse complex English language including meaning of idioms. The technology major said this advanced version of natural language processing (NLP) for its Project Debater would have the capability to understand challenging aspects of conversational English helping organisations to get greater clarity and more insights from their data. IBM said these new technologies represent the first commercialization of key NLP capabilities to come from IBM Research's Project Debater. Subram Natrajan, IBM India CTO, said today NLP has many limitations and this is going to push boundaries. For instance, he said, the Advanced Sentiment Analysis solution, to be integrated into Watson, is going to have a huge impact in terms of understanding the sentiment behind a language.

Nicolae: IBM announced the release of the Adversarial Robustness Toolbox today. This is a toolbox that is meant to help developers and researchers working on adversarial attacks against machine learning, so the toolbox features attacks and defense methods along with some metrics for evaluating the robustness of machine learning models. So we had a demo today that relies entirely on features that you can find in the Adversarial Robustness Toolbox. What we are showing is how an attacker can tamper with an input, with an image, for a machine learning model. In this case we were looking for a visual recognition task.

IBM's Watson Internet of Things (IoT) unit has teamed with audio giant Harman's Professional Solutions group to create an adaptive artificial intelligence service that can act as an "in-room cognitive concierge." In less tech-jargon, that's an AI able to respond to voice commands and questions based specifically on the context of the room its sensor is located in. The technology is currently being demonstrated as a cognitive conference room assistant, and it's already in use as a patient concierge in hospital rooms. Soon, this cognitive room capability could find its way into hotel rooms, cruise ship cabins, and other corporate spaces. Called Voice-Enabled Cognitive Rooms, the technology uses IBM's Watson IoT application programming interfaces and cognitive computing service paired with Harman AKG microphones, JBL speakers, and control and switching systems from Harman subsidiary AMX.