Wednesday 18 November 2015
On Wednesday IBM released an iOS app that it says can predict which toys will be most popular this Christmas. Called Watson Trend it uses Big Blue’s natural language-learning supercomputer to sift through millions of reviews, blogs and social media conversations to find out which toys and gadgets will be big this year. The app separates the content it collects into four categories: Health, Toys, Tech and a suitably vague ‘All’. In the latter section, the front-runner is the Apple Watch, followed by Samsung TV – although I’m not sure how you could get a 60-inch curved OLED under your tree…
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