Sunday, February 27, 2011

The Future Roles of Watson


Last week’s big news: IBM’s smartest computer Watson won the game and became the new Jeopardy champion, it’s not only just a new milestone in computer history but also a victory for humanity. Watson will play a significant role in helping humans change the world, and IBM could also commercialize Watson and get a decent return from the investment in him in the last couple of years.

During the game, even though Watson has no “face” yet, we could still visualize Watson as an intelligent, information-savvy, one of the coolest players with the fastest running mindset, beyond the human-powered machine of listening, learning, engaging, and evolving. Besides being informative, intelligent, and inquisitive, Watson could become more intuitive, inspiring, and imaginative via indefatigable practice.

Watson will be qualified for many roles in the future:
•Watson will become the doctor or doctor assistant to interact with patients and human colleagues, diagnose and prescribe with precision and speed;

•Watson will become a senior consultant in any knowledge-intensive domain, such as legal, IT, science research, customer services., etc, bring up new insight via comparing, patterning, and tuning volume information with super speed.

•Watson will become the future of librarians, and professors; communicate with the audience via unimaginable knowledge and wisdom.

•Watson will become the writer to convey fresh insight or perspective through digesting so much historical information, no matter whether it’s a research white paper or a fiction story, Watson could predict the future by seeing through history.
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In summary, Watson’s victory helped to open a new chapter to the next generation of computers, artificial intelligence, and smart robots, many Watsons or Watsonas will work closely with humans to reinvent science, management, and philosophy. etc. and explore the many unsolved mysteries around us. Watson helps us celebrate humanity, recognize our own potential, and well prepare for the future by digging deeper into the historical pattern.

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