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IBM: In 5 Years, Watson A.I. will be Behind your Every Decision

posted by janrinok on Saturday October 29 2016, @01:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the not-here-it-won't dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

In the next five years, every important decision, whether it's business or personal, will be made with the assistance of IBM Watson. That's the vision of IBM president and CEO Ginni Rometty, in a keynote speech at IBM's World of Watson conference Wednesday.

Watson, the company's artificial intelligence-fueled system, is working in fields like health care, finance, entertainment and retail, connecting businesses more easily with their customers, making sense of big data and helping doctors find treatments for cancer patients.

The Watson system is set to transform how businesses function and how people live their lives. "Our goal is augmenting intelligence," Rometty said. "It is man and machine. This is all about extending your expertise. A teacher. A doctor. A lawyer. It doesn't matter what you do. We will extend it."

Is one woman's vision another man's nightmare?

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Saturday October 29 2016, @12:44PM

    by VLM (445) on Saturday October 29 2016, @12:44PM (#420098)

    As an upper level exec that the company depends upon for wisdom, you know that speech can be cut and pasted for any random tech fad. Could cut and replace in IoT, Cloud, Java, Dot Net, any meaningless hype.

    Now for a real debate, who thinks she even knows what Watson is, other than a name on a speech written by an underling? I would bet she has no idea, could be a new kind of transistor, a random number generator, a dongle, my bet is she has no idea.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Saturday October 29 2016, @08:43PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Saturday October 29 2016, @08:43PM (#420244) Journal

    So you say, she could safely be replaced by Watson?

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    • (Score: 2) by gidds on Monday October 31 2016, @11:39AM

      by gidds (589) on Monday October 31 2016, @11:39AM (#420831)

      So you say, she could safely be replaced by Watson?

      How do you know she hasn't already been???

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