Hey there Bill!
When I first saw the Title of this Email thread show up in my Inbox - I
was curious as to what it was about. But, before opening the e-mail, I
realized it was probably about the IBM project - which was featured on
Jeopardy. My Mom is a Huge fan of that game show - and, needless to say
- she saw the Watson performance.
So - yeah - I was VERY Curious to see what you are doing w/Watson.
I think a project like Watson can truly have HUGE Potential. I will have
to read thru the rest of the Thread. But, I did see you started a new
thread - since communication w/Watson required usage of Containers
technology. Will definitely have to finish reading both threads - as I
am Definitely curious as to the Outcome.
By the way - and maybe it was already mentioned in one of the other
threads. If you can programmatically send a Q to Watson - am curious if
IBM has opened up a public webpage - where the Public can send Q's to
Watson???
L8r,
-K-
On 11/7/2014 7:23 PM, Bill Arnold wrote:
I figure some people might be interested in hooking up to Watson from
FoxPro, so I'll share what I learn as I go along, eventually, hopefully,
some code examples. Till now all I had was enthusiasm and some knowledge
from reading articles on the subject. But this week I received a note from
IBM inviting me to try Watson for a month. I jumped on the opportunity, but
then found myself mired in unfamiliar territory (and I thought I knew IBM!).
The URL they sent me to, assuming it's still open (?)
https://ace.ng.bluemix.net/
To see if I could get any help I posted a question: "Can I access Watson
from Visual FoxPro using JSON?" on the Watson developer forum
https://developer.ibm.com/answers/questions/163315/can-i-access-watson-from-
visual-foxpro-using-json/?smartspace=watson
And received (just) one response so far that says
"Watson does have a REST-based service that uses JSON as its messaging
format. It is possible to integration a variety of tools and languages with
Watson, provided those tools and languages support the ability to invoke a
REST service.
Now I think I get the basic/general idea, which is that I create an object
in VFP, use JSON to translate it into some sort of file, then pass that file
to the RESTive server. I presume I will then get an object back that I have
to use JSON again to translate the response into a VFP object.
Can any confirm or embellish this understanding.
Fortunately the basic proposition is very simple: to ask questions and get
answers. Hard to get simpler than that. The hard part is knowing what
questions to ask. And the matter of making company information available to
Watson. There are definitely questions down this road.
Can anyone shed any light?
Bill
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