Expert Talk: Steven Baker on Watson and human-machine interaction

Sogeti Labs

July 13, 2012

Today in our video section: Steven Baker, former BusinessWeek writer and author of Final Jeopardy and The Numerati.

“We lack humility. Watson in that sense can teach us a lot, because we could learn a lot by questioning the very premises that we take for granted.” “We have to look at Watson’s weakness and move into areas where the machines are weak”

Watson as methodology – humility to be wrong The Watson Project – making sense of unstructured data Machine analysis is just another layer of human analysis

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