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you guys have seen this before it's called a Spiro works with this cool app you drive it around and go off jumps play games but believe it or not this thing is more sophisticated than it looks and today we're gonna test that out I have teamed up with IBM for this video and we are going to be using Watson to take the Sphero to the next level now many of you know I am a Toronto Raptors fan and the Raptor is actually used as Watson tech to do player evaluations and make decisions based on data so we're going to carry forward with that basketball theme and we're gonna play Watson basketball with the Sphero the table as you can tell is now a basketball court thankfully jack is somewhat artistic in this little sparrow is about to become a basketball player how exciting is that through the power of Watson the Watson API we've got an application that means he's going to interpret my commands as if I'm his coach and then react like a player maybe even experience what victory feels like now obviously this is not what the Toronto Raptors are doing actually I don't know maybe they're having fun like maybe this is exactly how they make their decision probably not know they're doing far more sophisticated stuff crunching data they're using Watson api's in order to determine sentiment surrounding a particular player to look at stats and crunch it all down so that they can make better more informed decisions so the various instructions result in different behavior for the Sphero for example certain instructions will result in him changing color whereas other ones will result in certain actions let's get the game started with of course an important component in basketball to tip-off watch this tip-off I got this let's get the session early on you saw him turn green you heard the response interpreted that language games now started I need to tell him to make a move on the fastbreak let's try this out fast break on it they won't know what hit him oh look at that moves right over to the offensive zone okay so he's down over here but what's the next move what about defense you got to come back every so often you're trying to be a two-way player alright Spiro play some defense please yes coach tracking back now oh oh you see the way that happened right to the rim was tracking the whole time you got keep the shoulders in front that's a tip for you kids out there eyes on the chest never mind the ball you don't want to get crossed up alright Spiro the other team sent the ball out of bounds so please head down there and inbound it for us turnover time to go on the attack what bullying jumps straight out about cool thing here is it's actually pretty sophisticated so even if you don't necessarily phrase things in an exact way but there are keywords that are picked up as reference points this Bureau can still interpret what action it is that you're looking for something I want to mention at this point as well is that this app is browser-based so theoretically it could run on a laptop tablet and iPad and iPhone I told you how in professional cases like the Toronto Raptors they could be some sort of sentiment analysis tracking social media in order to interpret what's being said about a particular player ok Spiro job well done you won the game it's time to celebrate the victory waddles with you as our coach that's right coach Liu maybe I got a future in this look at them dancing around turning red and if the Watson API is picking that up as sentiment off social media Spiro is going to celebrate so please you know send your tweets hashtag victory so what you just witnessed was three separate Watson api's in action first speech-to-text that's me speaking to the Spiro the conversation API allows the application to understand what I'm saying and then respond the text-to-speech API actually converts text from the app into speech so then I can hear what the app has to say rather than reading the screen truthfully we're just scratching the surface this stuff is used for all kinds of different companies it's even used for music recommendations if you want to check it out for yourself there's a link in the description go find out what you can build