{"id":47102,"date":"2014-08-06T10:01:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T14:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=47102"},"modified":"2014-11-25T17:01:37","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T22:01:37","slug":"a-room-where-executives-go-to-get-help-from-ibms-watson-simonite-mit-technology-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2014\/08\/06\/a-room-where-executives-go-to-get-help-from-ibms-watson-simonite-mit-technology-review\/","title":{"rendered":"A room where executives go to get help from IBM\u2019s Watson [Simonite; MIT Technology Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"A room where executives go to get help from IBM\u2019s Watson [ Simonite; MIT Technology Review]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/news\/529606\/a-room-where-executives-go-to-get-help-from-ibms-watson\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47103\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/WatsonInBoardRoomMeetingsMIT-Aug2014.jpg\" alt=\"WatsonInBoardRoomMeetingsMIT-Aug2014\" width=\"539\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/WatsonInBoardRoomMeetingsMIT-Aug2014.jpg 539w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/WatsonInBoardRoomMeetingsMIT-Aug2014-137x150.jpg 137w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">First, Watson was brought up to speed by being directed, verbally, to read over an internal memo summarizing the company\u2019s strategy for artificial intelligence. It was then asked by one of the researchers to use that knowledge to generate a long list of candidate companies. \u201cWatson, show me companies between $15 million and $60 million in revenue relevant to that strategy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">After the humans in the room talked over the results Watson displayed on screen, they called out a shorter list for Watson to put in a table with columns for key characteristics. After mulling some more, one of them said: \u201cWatson, make a suggestion.\u201d The system ran a set of decision-making algorithms and bluntly delivered its verdict: \u201cI recommend eliminating Kawasaki Robotics.\u201d When Watson was asked to explain, it simply added. \u201cIt is inferior to Cognilytics in every way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Excerpt: First, Watson was brought up to speed by being directed, verbally, to read over an internal memo summarizing the company\u2019s strategy for artificial intelligence. It was then asked by one of the researchers to use that knowledge to generate a long list of candidate companies. \u201cWatson, show me companies between $15 million and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[387,45,112,200,35,391,547,180,482,124,217,20,11,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-computer-science","category-corporate-business-world","category-corporate-universities","category-game-changing-environment","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-ibm","category-innovation","category-intelligent-systems","category-intelligent-tutoring","category-research","category-strategy","category-vision-possibilities","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47105,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47102\/revisions\/47105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}