What is watsonx.ai?

Dec. 23, 2023

At the recent COP28, NASA and IBM announced that an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool called watsonx.ai would be available on the open-source AI platform Hugging Space.

About watsonx.ai:

  • It is an Artificial Intelligence tool jointly built by IBM and NASA.
  • It will help users monitor the Earth from space, measuring environmental changes that have already happened while also making predictions about the future.
  • The model is also designed to be extremely simple to use. A user would merely need to select a location and a date, and the model will highlight changes in floodwater, reforestation efforts and other relevant factors.

How does watsonx.ai work?

  • It is built on a foundation model — it’s trained on a broad set of uncategorised data allowing the model to apply information about one situation to another.
  • In the case of watsonx.ai, NASA provides the datasets (in terms of satellite images instead of words,) and IBM created the foundation model to interpret them.
  • In order to train the model to comprehend visual sequences that unfold over time, scientists filled in blank areas in each image and asked the model to piece it back together.
  • It became increasingly adept at figuring out how the photos connected to one another as it reassembled additional images.
  • The model was then adjusted for certain tasks like segmenting and categorising photos.

What is watsonx.data?

  • It is a fit-for-purpose data store optimised for governed data and AI workloads. It is designed to enable enterprises to scale AI workloads by harnessing their entire data landscape.

What is watsonx.governance?

  • It is an end-to-end toolkit encompassing both data and AI governance. It helps clients create responsible, transparent and explainable AI workflows by providing AI governance capabilities like model management throughout the AI lifecycle.