Named after the first two presidents of IBM Capable of giving precise, factual answers to questions posed in natural language In the Jeopardy! Show, Watson wasn’t in the room behind Over its three-year life, Watson stored the content of tens of millions of documents, which it now accessed to answer questions about almost anything
You are hands free to do anything: have a drink for example Big hope for people with disabilities and/or paralysation Can’t always control our thoughts Can easily misunderstand “commands” and “actual thoughts”
ScienceDaily states that future surgeons might use a system recognizes hand gestures as commands to control a robotic scrub nurse or tell a computer to display medical images of the patient during an operation in the future Both the hand-gesture recognition and robotic nurse innovations might help to reduce the length of surgeries and the potential for infection
- 90% - 10% - 50% Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) Winter Intelligence conference at University of Oxford on machine intelligence in January 2011