We all know Watson(IBM computer) ‘s prowess already been tested in cancer research. Watson has proven its worth in editing a thriller film trailer, composing music, providing excellent customer service. But has Watson proven its worth in the field of fashion? The fact that IBM is betting big on Watson is abundantly clear and it is now being leveraged by big fashion houses to utilize social data to better interact with customers, improve sales with highly targeted marketing campaigns and predict customer orders.  The AI-based collection, aptly titled Future of Bollywood Fashion was created by analyzing around 600,000 publicly available historical fashion runway images from the last decade. Read more at: http://analyticsindiamag.com/future-indian-fashion-ai-watson-makes-splashy-debut-indian-runway/

In describing the key traits that a successful business man possesses, one cannot say who is the best. Just to get the idea while using IBM's supercomputer Watson, online career management website "paysa" analyzed the speeches, essays, books and interview transcripts of today's most powerful leaders. So to do this, it surveyed 8 industries. And in majority of these , Watson discovered "intellect" was the top personality trait for leaders. It also identified other traits, i.e. imagination, cautiousness, assertiveness, adventurous and more. Elon musk scored the highest score for the "most cautious leader". Above all, Bezos, Cook and Meg Whitman each tied for "most altruistic leader" at 98 percent. Whitman also topped the list for the most "achievement-seeking leader." Mark Zuckerberg seemed to exhibit the least amount of top common success traits identified by Watson. Although that doesn't mean much -- the Facebook co-founder and CEO just has his own set of unique traits that make him stand out. Read more at: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/295452 and  

https://www.paysa.com/blog/2017/05/24/watson-personality-analysis-by-industry/

 IBM announced last week it has moved its cognitive computing system into the cloud to form the Watson Discovery Advisor, allowing researchers, academics and anyone else trying to leverage big data the ability to test programs and hypotheses at speeds never before seen.

"I think there have been a number of ways that we have improved the system since Jeopardy", said John Gordon, vice president of IBM Watson Systems.

IBM has been honing Watson's capabilities over the last three years, reducing its size and upping its power since its famous appearance on "Jeopardy!" in 2011.

"Part of Smarter Cities was working with different municipalities and governments to determine how technology could help them provide better services to their constituents", Gordon said.Read more at: https://www.fedscoop.com/watson-cloud/