[Disclosure: IBM is a client of the author.]
I’m at IBM Think and PartnerWorld this week and I’m getting a strong view of the future. While we’re surrounded by digital assistants like Siri and Alexa, let’s face it: they’re pretty stupid and not true AIs. They basically use their limited intelligence to automate web searches and then convert text to speech to read you the results. Watson is very different and few of us have access to it, but it’s a true deep learning AI…and that means it can form opinions on its own and act autonomously to our benefit.
IBM had several examples of the coming future. By appraising some of these examples and applying a soupçon of intuition, you can begin to understand how massively this technology will change our lives in a few years.
