Watsonx – a platform of IBM for artificial intelligence and data
The platform was designed to help organizations develop, train, manage, and implement generative and traditional AI models with a high degree of reliability and control.
Introduced in 2023 and named after Thomas J. Watson (a key leader in the launch of IBM), the platform provides software tools for companies working with both IBM AI models and third-party models. Watsonx makes creating and deploying artificial intelligence easy and scalable, accelerating the impact of generative artificial intelligence across core workflows to boost productivity. It is applied in customer service automation, big data analysis, decision-making support in various sectors of the economy, content generation, text summarization, and translation. Important advantages of Watsonx are openness and flexibility, security and control (guarantees data confidentiality and GDPR compliance), cost optimization and fast implementation.
The presentation covered the main components of Watsonx:
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- Watsonx.ai – working environment for developing, testing, training, validating and implementing AI models;
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- Watsonx.data – a hybrid data architecture that feeds artificial intelligence and analytical tools with all your data, anywhere you are;
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- Watsonx.orchestrate – for creating, implementing, and managing AI assistants, coordinating AI agent teams, and automating work processes;
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- Watsonx.governance – a set of tools to ensure that AI applications comply with the company’s policies and regulations.
IBM Watsonx can successfully support scientific activities at the Sofia University by being used for predictive analysis (part of advanced data analysis), scientific research and Deep learning.
During the meeting were also discussed topics such as Data poisoning (cyberattack targeting machine learning and artificial intelligence models) and Data injection (cyberattack in which the attacker enters malicious data for the purpose of manipulation).
The IBM SkillsBuild platform was also presented – a free digital training program designed to provide people with the skills needed for jobs in demand in the digital economy. SkillsBuild is aimed at different groups – adults, students, teachers, and organizations.
The presentation was conducted by Anastasia Arnaut, Dafinka Lazarova and Lyudmila Lisicheva from the IBM team, and the event was attended by Prof. Krassen Stefanov, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Elizabeta Gurova, Chief Assistant Prof. Dr. Albena Antonova, Prof. Maria Nisheva, Prof. Dr. Vladimir Dimitrov, Prof. Dr. Ivan Koichev, and other scientists and lecturers from the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics at the Sofia University.