US-based technology giants IBM and Apple Inc., on Tuesday, announced a new partnership on the second day of Think 2018, IBMâs flagship client event in Las Vegas.
The partnership helps the Cupertino-based smartphone maker to combine IBM Watson machine learning with Apple Core ML.
âIBM has built hundreds of enterprise apps on Apple’s platform, but the new partnership takes the relationship a step furtherâ the company said.
“We’re really excited to see the power and performance of IBM Watson Services for Core ML. It can inspire a whole new generation of smart enterprise apps that get smarter and smarter the more we use them,” tweeted Brian Croll, Vice President of OS product marketing at Apple Inc.
The way it works is that a customer builds a machine learning model using Watson, taking advantage of data in an enterprise repository to train the model.
For instance, a company may want to help field service techs point their iPhone camera at a machine and identify the make and model to order the correct parts. You could potentially train a model to recognize all the different machines using Watsonâs image recognition capability, according to IBM.
(The journalist was in Las Vegas on the invitation of IBM)
