Last month, High's company unveiled Project Intu, an experimental platform that allows developers the ability to build internet of things devices using its artificial intelligence services, like Conversation, Language and Visual Recognition. Someday, the system promises to let programmers create a staple character of sci-fi: the gregarious, hyper-connected AI like J.A.R.V.I.S. of Iron Man, KITT of Knight Rider, or Star Wars' C3PO. High isn't talking about a robot that's conscious or sentient, with genuine feelings, but rather a "cognitive" AI that can analyze the mood and personality of a user and adjust how it expresses itself--in text, voice, online avatars, and physical robots. The result, he says, could transform industries like retail, elder care, and industrial and social robotics. At IBM's 2016 Watson Developer Conference in San Francisco last month, Australian oil- and gas-drilling company Woodside showed an onscreen question-answering AI built with Project Intu.

Though artificial intelligence experts may cringe at the portrayals of humanlike AI in science fiction, some researchers are nudging us closer to those visions. "I think it's useful that your user interface not only understand your emotions, your personality, your tone, your motivations, but that it also have a set of emotions, personality, motivations," says Rob High, the CTO of IBM Watson. "I think that makes it more natural for us." Last month, High's company unveiled Project Intu, an experimental platform that allows developers the ability to build internet of things devices using its artificial intelligence services, like Conversation, Language and Visual Recognition. Someday, the system promises to let programmers create a staple character of sci-fi: the gregarious, hyper-connected AI like J.A.R.V.I.S. of Iron Man, KITT of Knight Rider, or Star Wars' C3PO.

Though artificial intelligence experts may cringe at the portrayals of humanlike AI in science fiction, some researchers are nudging us closer to those visions. "I think it's useful that your user interface not only understand your emotions, your personality, your tone, your motivations, but that it also have a set of emotions, personality, motivations," says Rob High, the CTO of IBM Watson. "I think that makes it more natural for us." Last month, High's company unveiled Project Intu, an experimental platform that allows developers the ability to build internet of things devices using its artificial intelligence services, like Conversation, Language and Visual Recognition. Someday, the system promises to let programmers create a staple character of sci-fi: the gregarious, hyper-connected AI like J.A.R.V.I.S. of Iron Man, KITT of Knight Rider, or Star Wars' C3PO.

IBM wants to make the connected products, robots, and other gizmos of the future as smart as they can be -- and it's Jeopardy!-champion That's why the company announced last week that Watson will be made available to more developers than ever thanks to Project Intu. If people take advantage of this program, Watson could make sure their supposedly "smart" products aren't quite as elementary as they are now. Watson has already been used to do everything from enable robot concierges to help a professor at Georgia Tech manage the online forums of his A.I. course. Project Intu is supposed to expand Watson's influence even further.

IBM recently announced an experimental new platform called Project Intu, which will allow the Internet of Things (IoT) and other developers to embed IBM Watson functionality into their devices. The experimental release hopes to see developers create new form factors for Watson's speech, language, vision and empathy capabilities. Project Intu is platform-agnostic and can run on many operating systems, including Windows, macOS, Linux, Raspberry Pi and more. It aims to provide developers with a ready-made environment to build cognitive experiences, allowing for simplified integration of Watson services such as conversation, language and visual recognition. IBM offers the following example of what a developer can do with Project Intu: "Instead of needing to program each individual movement of a device or avatar, Project Intu makes it easy to combine movements that are appropriate for performing specific tasks, like assisting a customer in a retail setting or greeting a visitor in a hotel in a way that is natural for the end user."

IBM introduces Intu, new AI form which enables developers to embed supercomputer Watson functionality into numerous end-user devices, providing an advanced architecture for creating cognitive-enabled experiences. In IBM's speech, "cognitive computing" describes machine learning. The idea about Project Intu is that developers will have the chance to use the platform to embed the various machine learning features offered by IBM's Watson service into different applications and products, and make them work across a wide range of form variables. Intu makes easier the process for developers wanting to develop cognitive expertises in various form factors such as spaces, characters, bots or other IoT devices, and it extends cognitive techniques into the real world. The system enables devices to interact more naturally with users, causing different feelings and behaviors and making more significant and immersive experience for users.

IBM has announced the experimental release of Project Intu, a new, system-agnostic platform designed to enable embodied cognition. The new platform allows developers to embed Watson functions into various end-user device form factors, offering a next generation architecture for building cognitive-enabled experiences. Project Intu, in its experimental form, is now accessible via the Watson Developer Cloud and also available on Intu Gateway and GitHub. Project Intu simplifies the process for developers wanting to create cognitive experiences in various form factors such as spaces, avatars, robots or other IoT devices, and it extends cognitive technology into the physical world. The platform enables devices to interact more naturally with users, triggering different emotions and behaviors and creating more meaningful and immersive experience for users.

Intu aims to put "embodied cognition" in a range of devices. Developers can use the platform to embed the various machine learning functions offered by IBM's Watson service into shedloads of form factors – from avatars to drones to robots and just about any other kind of'Internet of Things' device. This will allow devices will be able to "interact more naturally" with users via a range of emotions and behaviours, leading to more meaningful and immersive user experiences, IBM said. Project Intu's forte is in conversation, language and visual recognition. Here, developers can integrate Watson's abilities with a device's capabilities to effectively "act out" interactions with users.