Watson API and Homebrewtalk

[noggins]

I've recently started working with IBM watson at my job and have started thinking....while it's still in early development, how cool would it be to have the homebrewtalk gods work with IBM to build a custom question and answer API for this site? We could give them access to this massive database of questions and answers and it could take all the priceless and sometimes contradicting information and compile a list of all the possible answers to all the possible homebrewing questions and come up with probabilities to match each answer based on forum history and we could end up with the single greatest resource to homebrewers since homebrewtalk began. Users could go to a sort of "get help NOOW!!" page, type in whatever question they have and be given the top 5 answers ever given based on the number of times the same or similar answer has been given and how often the answer actually lead to a confirmed solution.

 

[Pappers_]

Didn't you know that @TxBrew isn't a person - he's a sentient computer program, in a climate controlled room in the wilds of Texas. Somehow, he's convinced @Yooper to be his minion. Its all very terrifying.

 

[day_trippr]

Maybe Watson can make Search work...

Cheers!