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The gap between words and action in cognitive business

One of the biggest challenges with the cognitive era and for enterprises to adopt this shift is in my opinion, two things. The first is the gap between the tech and the business, which leads to the...

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Watson Security

Since Watson is a cloud service, security and data privacy are important. This paper on Watson, Watson Developer Cloud, Bluemix and Softlayer is a great overview that should bring some clarity and...

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Watson Beat – a computer that creates music

What is Watson Beat? It is a cognitive technology that makes original music inspired by songs you play for 15-20s. Sounds bananas I know, but this could really be a game changer since Watson Beat...

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Marcus Aurelius Quote

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live” – Marcus Aurelius The post Marcus Aurelius Quote appeared first on Fredrik Stenbeck.

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Personal data and misleading information

With political powers, dictators raising, cyber-threats intensively increasing and nation sponsored propaganda machines and troll agencies always present, we need to improve several things with the...

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More people should have read my post last year

Yesterday I wrote a lengthy ramble on what we need to change with the internet today. Much was about how we and others use our personal data to mislead us (propaganda, fake news, alternative facts,...

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Watson Powered Financial Companion

I have wanted to share this for a while and it never seemed to be the right moment. Well, here it is! This started as a vision a while ago, originally based on an idea from my brother-in-arms Carl and...

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Commercial use of Chef Watson with Watson Ads

Is Chef Watson included in IBMs new Watson Ad product? Chef Watson is the most publicly talked about Watson use-case, after Jeopardy I assume. Chef Watson takes a scientific approach to cooking and...

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Watson Language and Price Update

Since publishing the post on what languages Watson supports and how much Watson actually cost, those posts have generated outstanding most visits on this blog. Since Watson is constantly updated I...

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20 years ago IBMs Deep Blue beat Kasparov in Chess

The 11th of May 1997 IBMs supercomputer Deep Blue beat the current world champion, Garry Kasparov, in chess. IBM Research released a little re-cap of the event and what has happened over the years up...

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Am I rich?

A recent trip made me reflect on the life we live and what we are searching for or trying to achieve with our lives. As a person, I see my life as a journey of change and constant learning. I see the...

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Short-tail, long-tail and human-tail chatbot

I am not that overwhelmed by the hype of chatbots as a buzzword for AI. I see chatbots as an interface. It might be considered an evolution in terms of UI / UX, but as an example of AI, I am not...

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Google Natural Language vs Watson Natural Language Understanding

The competition in understanding natural language from unstructured text is thickening. Google just launched two new features for their Google Natural Language API, categories and sentiment. Those have...

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Business Benefits of Natural Language Understanding

Yesterday I wrote a post about Google Natural Language vs Watson Natural Language Understanding, Given that it was 2178 words you might think it contained a lot of info on why understanding natural...

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Reed Hastings Quote

”Don’t be just a tech company—you want to combine 2 skills that have not been successfully combined before” – Reed Hastings The post Reed Hastings Quote appeared first on Fredrik Stenbeck.

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Why is unstructured data so important?

Your business is making decisions only on 20% of the information you have access to, this since 80% of your information is unstructured and up until now not able to be fully utilized. It is about time...

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Secrets of “Special Ops” Leadership

I often state that startups are the special forces of business, so this article about Special Forces leadership is a really good read if you think your team is bleeding edge in their field. To lead...

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What I miss from my time in the Military

For a long time, I have sincerely felt I made the wrong decision when I left the military in 1998. I miss the passion, friendship, adventure and also how there was not an option to miss on solving the...

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How Facebook ads helped elect Trump

Brad Parscale is the man that orchestrated the Trump Online Campaign. He says he won the election on Facebook with highly targeted ads — this is a very interesting interview, well worth the look if you...

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I am leaving Facebook and Twitter

When presidents can publish threats and aggressive tweets on Twitter and not be closed down, I do not want to be a part of it. When most information I see is angry post claiming all things are bad, I...

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