TheBrain 9 reaches its beta phase

Posted by Paul Korm
Oct 29, 2016 at 01:42 PM

There was an interesting thread in the v9 beta forum the other day between an IBM Watson Group team member and the v9 developer lead exploring the possibility of using v9 as “discovery” “concept navigator” for relationships that Watson might have found in a large corpus of documents. The discussion went offline, so it will be interesting to see if something develops on this front. v9 uses JSON as input and Watson produces JSON as output—so the possible interface is enabled by the technology upgrades that the v9 team is working on.

Now, I have no plans or the funds to put a Watson in my garage, but it interesting to see potential cooperation at this level—for me, it underscores the commitment of TheBrain to its new product direction and continued expansion of features—albeit in a direction that is mostly of interest to corporate and governmental clients. We ordinary folk might get some of the shine, too.