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Part 7 of the Cognitive System Testing series, originally posted in 2016 on IBM Developer. Introduction This blog series has focused on a set of techniques needed for testing a cognitive system. As previously discussed, the cognitive…

Part 6 of the Cognitive System Testing series, originally posted in 2016 on IBM Developer. Introduction The last several blog chapters in this series focused on testing at the system and functional layers. You may be wondering…

Part 5 of the Cognitive System Testing series, originally posted in 2016 on IBM Developer. Introduction As described in previous chapters, cognitive systems are probabilistic, non-deterministic systems, which will never achieve 100% accuracy. (After all – what…

Part 4 of the Cognitive System Testing series, originally posted in 2016 on IBM Developer. Introduction Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the way cognitive systems extract meaningful information out of plain text. NLP is part art and…

Part 3 of the Cognitive System Testing series, originally posted in 2016 on IBM Developer. A cognitive system is only as good as the data loaded into the system. Loading data into a cognitive system is often…

Part 2 of the Cognitive System Testing series, originally posted in 2016 on IBM Developer. Introduction A cognitive system, like most software systems, is a collection of modular components, each with varying degrees of complexity. One quick…

Part 1 of the Cognitive System Testing series, originally posted in 2016 on IBM Developer. Introduction I joined IBM Watson in 2012 and immediately became interested in how cognitive solutions, such as those based on Watson, are…

I’ve been privileged to work with Jennifer Sukis on a podcast about AI, aptly named AI Zen with Andrew and Jen.  We combine Jen’s design expertise with my AI expertise and talk about the intersection…

I recently read the Shape Up book written by Ryan Singer of the BaseCamp team. It has a delightful subtitle – “Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters” – and is full of…