I was interested in doing IBM's Watson Hackathon this month: I prototyped a little app that used their speech recognition service but quickly discovered that it couldn't understand even the most basic things that I said, whilst Nuance/Siri had no issues. I've also seen demos given by the Watson team consisting mostly of very deep Java stack traces, and "sorry, this question could not be answered, try later". Whilst I think that Watson seems more of a triumph of marketing over technical capability, they're at least headed in the right direction.

The full podcast of the interview: http://metisstrategy.com/podcasts/Interview%20with%20Mike%20...

Is there a way to read Forbes articles without disabling content blockers? I don't want to go back to all those cookies and ad trackers.