OnStar & Waston: Skynet For Our Cars"
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Watson and OnStar aim to improve your . . . I was going to say driving, but this has nothing to do with actual driving, with maneuvering a car over a ribbon of road; no, this has more to do with fully and efficiently using your car in your daily life.
Good"
Okay, I’ll go with good for now.
Sort of.
Meet Watson
Most of you know OnStar, General Motors’ in car assistant thingo. It started out as a direct call to mobile concierge type of person, but has evolved into something more along the lines of Apple’s Siri; all digital and aiming for some sort of humanity expressed in ones and zeros.
Watson, of course, is this smart computer system that IBM came up with a while back. I want to say it was a spin off from all of their chess playing machines (Deep Blue, Big Blue, We’re Going to Beat Gary Kasparov Until He Turns Blue), but Watson really gained prominence when it won at Jeopardy. Then IBM changed it from Alex Trebek’s nightmare into a medical diagnosis machine. Now, a GM/IBM consortium will upgrade the existing OnStar services by introducing new Watson-derived capabilities. Rolling out by the end of 2017, the improved system will be available in more than two million vehicles and millions of GM vehicle brand app-enabled mobile devices in the United States.
General Motors and IBM recently announced a partnership to bring OnStar and IBM Watson together to create OnStar Go, the auto industr...
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