IBM Watson can discern if your email is too passive aggressive

We've all written emails, texts and blog posts we regret. We thought they would be interpreted one way, but instead they sparked fights.

New test-interpreting artificial intelligence technology from IBM Watson could help protect you from yourself.

IBM introduced instant Tone Analyzer this week, which uses cloud-based linguistic analysis to tell if that email, blog post or text message is really as angry, assertive, happy or sad as you intended.

The super computer has come a long way since beating a human at Jeopardy! It's now behind a vast array of cloud-based services and APIs that businesses can use to drive everything from computer-generated recipes to robotic interactions Read more...