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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?
(Score: 2) by datapharmer on Saturday October 29 2016, @06:23PM
I tried Watson analytics when they released the beta. I was not impressed. The interface was buggy and unintuitive and the analytical "revelations" were far from mind blowing. For example a set of anonymized hr data revealed that employees who worked more than 20 years were likely to retire, recently married employees between ages 24 and 40 were more likely to take fmla leave, and employees under 22 were likely to be part time and stay less than 2 years.
In other words, it quantified the obvious.
Maybe it has its uses but I didn't find anything that wouldn't be better served by hiring a statistician that knows r.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Saturday October 29 2016, @10:10PM
So they've automated the IBM consultant.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].