AI is supervised learning (says Ginni Rometty, CEO IBM)

IBM CEO Ginni Rometty explains the benefits of Watson and AI in general. Very astute and sometimes equally worrying.

“This is supervised learning: Watson has been trained by the best oncologists, he is been trained by the best people in risk and financial services, he is been trained by teachers for teachers,… this type of technology has been trained”

Mrs. Rometty seems convinced that AI Watson is masculine 😉

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