Name: IBM WATSON
Uploaded: 2014-09-20
Duration: 1 min 45 s
Description: IBM WATSON

[ MUSIC ] The Watson got its, made its public debut I guess on, on Jeopardy. Yep. At what point did you decide and see that this was a big opportunity and that this is something you wanted to place one of those big bets on? Well I always remember, driving home that night from the day Watson did that, sort of vignette on Jeopardy. Which was a pretty bold move because obviously when you do something like that on tv we agreed to do that long before it was the day of airing, right. So Watson has a lot of work to do to get ready for his big debut on, on television. And I remember coming home and on the phone saying to my husband, I think I just witnessed some piece of history. Hm. And it was really then I knew we had something. That this would be an era unlike any eras before it, right? Which very simply put, the eras before were the very simplest machines, did counting, the next everything we know today is programmed. If this, do that. You tell it what to do. May do it very fast. But that's what it has to be as programmed, and what Watson was, is a system that reasons and learns. And that is very different, and it is going to be essential for the decade ahead, because in this decade ahead the amount of information is overwhelming. You will be unable to deal with it in any other way. The ability to reinvent industries, professions. That is all in front of everyone of us and by the way it'll put a premium on things like education, science, technology. It won't matter what your job is. Everyone's gonna have sort of a silver thread of having to understand and how to apply data and analytics and technology in their job, in, no matter what your job is. Mm. But what great opportunity comes out of that. Both for my company, and I think everyone's company.