Some people say that artificial intelligence is like a train. You end up looking hard and finally come. Then it whistles and throws you behind you.
Following AlphaGo's victory over Li Shijun, disguised as the Master of China, Japan, and South Korea's Go masters, artificial intelligence is no longer the only thing that stays on television and technology media.
This time, it was "left behind" by American accountants.
After the end of the Super Bowl feast this year, it was the US tax season. There were two advertisements on the field that caught the eye.
The tax consulting company H&R Block will partner with IBM chief AI Watson to file taxes;
Tax Software TurboTax launched a chat bot specifically for tax purposes.
Found no, all about AI.
Blue giant IBM will use Watson to help people tax? This point succeeded in attracting Mordor's attention.
According to IBM's official website, Watson will assist 70,000 tax specialists to fill out 11 million tax application forms in the tax season.
When hearing this news, the general media "New York Times" responded like this.
The response of the science and technology media "Link" that wants to do things is like this.
Mondo did not want to do anything, but Watson's attack did allow Mondeo in the media industry to feel a slight crisis!
Formerly, IBM wandered through Watson on TV's quiz show ("Dangerous Edge"), demonstrating its powerful capabilities of advanced natural language processing, information retrieval, knowledge representation, automatic reasoning, and machine learning.
Watson: Confused?
Or it is used in life sciences. For example, Watson compared 20 million cancer research papers at the University of Tokyo and then diagnosed a rare case of leukemia in only 10 minutes.
Now, Watson is turning to the accounting profession that we can reach within reach.
In order to "digest" the very complicated U.S. tax code, IBM let Watson learn crazy! These include:
74,000 federal tax rate documents
Thousands of tax filings that human accountants have summarized over the past 60 years
Various kinds of tax advice questions that may be received
The two key points of artificial intelligence are algorithms and data. If they are put into practical use, their importance is almost one-ninth. One is an algorithm and the other is data. This is why IBM wants Watson to learn so much data.
Through learning from previous experience, Watson can advise tax officials on different occupations, family economic conditions and personal circumstances; or individually advise taxpayers to increase the participation and interaction of H&R Block's customers.
In 2015, the number of accountants and auditors in the United States exceeded 2 million. These occupations were originally unlike bank tellers and were easily replaced by automation equipment such as ATM machines.
However, in the past two years, the perception ability of AI has increased rapidly. Even occupations that need to deal with people and make necessary judgments will eventually be replaced by machines.
"Connection" stated that it is expected that 4.5 million people will lose their jobs due to robotics in the future!
Over the years, TV, movies, and media have all discussed that artificial intelligence will replace human issues. It is not unreasonable to start jealous of it. For example, if Watson was originally quiet, why suddenly became so active?
The discipline of artificial intelligence was first established at the 1956 Dartmouth conference when IBM participated.
Watson made his first public appearance in 2011, the "Danger Edge." In the first 60 years, IBM's exploration in the AI ​​field can be sustained and slow.
However, after the introduction of Watson, IBM and some of the current layout of VR / AR's Facebook, Google, as if to seize the next opportunity, buy buy to simply stop!
According to incomplete statistics, since 2010, IBM has acquired more than 40 companies (covering six major companies including cloud computing, smart earth, business intelligence and data analysis, server and network storage optimization, corporate governance compliance and security, and artificial intelligence. Direction), spent at least 12 billion U.S. dollars.
There are 10 companies that belong to cloud computing and artificial intelligence:
In May 2010, he acquired cloud computing integrator Cast Iron Systems.
In January 2012, GreenHat, a cloud-based software testing company, was acquired.
In February 2012, he acquired cloud computing software developer Worklight.
In April 2014, it acquired privately held software company Silverpop.
In May 2014, it acquired Cogenea, an artificial intelligence startup.
In March 2015, the startup AlchemyAPI was acquired.
In March 2015, it acquired the technology of Blekko, a search engine startup.
In April 2015, it acquired Explorys, a cloud service company.
In April 2015, it acquired Phytel, a cloud computing company.
In October 2015, the weather company forecasted Weather Company, a $2 billion purchase of weather data.
In 2014, IBM put artificial intelligence on a very important position! Attention is very important!
These layouts did bring "sweetness" to IBM.
According to IBM's February financial report, revenue for the company continued to decline for the 19th consecutive quarter. Only Q4 of 2016 was so exciting because their new businesses (including Watson) grew by 14% and accounted for 41% of total revenue. This was achieved earlier than IBM's earlier forecast.
IBM once hoped that Watson could help them access more consumer and commercial applications to make up for their deficiencies in traditional hardware and software products.
The cooperation with H&R Block was a good opportunity. After the tax personnel “trained†Watson, it was tested in 100 offices. At present, according to the feedback of Bill Coubert, CEO of H&R Block, they are on Watson’s. The test is very satisfactory.
Bill Cobb (Left) and Watson Business Leader David Kenny (Right)
Of course, how can Watson ultimately provide H&R Block with much help? The results will be announced after the end of the tax season.
From a business application perspective, Watson has become a new contact for IBM's new business value. IBM, which can rely on AI to make money, now has more than 500 industry partners, from big companies to start-ups, with industries covering medical insurance financial services, retail, consumer products and legal services.
IBM has been trying to integrate Watson with the depth of the industry. Here are the existing cases:
Medical Retailing - Watson works with CVS, a US drug retailer, to predict the risk of a user's illness and develop the best health solutions.
Fashion field - China's first AI cognitive dress from Watson. For Li Yuchun to design a small dress, Watson learns Li Yuchun by reading pictures and texts of social media, and then recommends 2,500 pictures for designers.
Just ask you the United States is not beautiful?
Entertainment - The movie trailer produced by the first AI in history was from Watson. It took less than 24 hours to make trailers for 20th Century Fox’s science fiction thriller “Morgan,†which was 10 times faster than the regular trailer clip.
Autopilot – Last year, IBM teamed up with automaker Local Motors to build Olli, a self-driving vehicle that uses the Watson cognitive computing platform.
This car has been on the road
From a consumer perspective, 2017 seems to be a new beginning. IDC predicts that by 2018, 75% of new business software will have artificial intelligence capabilities. The AI ​​at that time will become the infrastructure for consumer and business applications.
IDC's forecast is in line with Watson's positioning. IBM defines Watson as an artificial intelligence operating system, which is currently downloaded by nearly 80,000 developers.
Can you imagine? Everyone develops a Watson-based application, and artificial intelligence penetrates into our lives without hesitation.
Gini Romanti: Follow me, Watson, Watson, Watson!
Although IBM’s chairman and CEO, Gini Romanti, has repeatedly emphasized in public that Watson’s purpose is not to replace people but to enhance people’s intelligence. but……
From crawling, walking, to learning to run, Watson's learning speed challenges humans all the time! No longer Think, after all, I can only step on a bicycle to generate power for Watson!
IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, after more than 50 years of his death, has returned to the world with artificial intelligence. Uppercase bullish!
310V 40Ah High Voltage Lithium Battery
310v high voltage Lithium Battery , 40Ah
lithium battery mine
high voltage lithium ion battery
ShenZhen UFO Power Technology Co., Ltd. , https://www.ufobattery.com