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You need a whole new way of computing of systems that could take that and make some sense out of it. if you think about, if you go back 20 years and retail, and if you are online buying something, you are a typical retailer, you might have half a million things you could look at. today, 20 million to 25 million. so as a buyer, how could you discern what is the right thing to do and that is one small example. so this is what has led us to watson. this explosion of information and once you become ...

I discuss that with ibm chief ginni rometty. listen in. >> bill gates, elon musk, people -- steven hawking have talked about the dangerous of artificial intelligence that the machines are getting too smart and that we will lose control over them. do you worry about that with watson? >> far eed, i dont prescribe to that pain of thought. part of that is your goal. i wouldnt call it artificial intelligence alone. artificial intelligence is around for many decades but it is one element that we are d...

Fine art skill that an editor puts together and yet watson was able to do this thing that the human does in -- it would take months apparently to cut a movie trailer and watson sort of did it in a day. explain how. >> watson helped the film editor do this in a day and something it would take him weeks to do and this is an element on one path that we have worked on which is creativity. so in fact, what watson is doing is watching different movies and how people respond and what is it they are res...

And that once you become digital and that led us to this world which was watson and basically think of it as the ability for systems to learn. >> how is watson different from your average computer? >> you know, this is -- its very different and i want you to not think of it as a computer. think of watson in this new world of cognitive. think of it as in the cloud and think of it as being embedded in everything that you can do, so it impacts your daily life and your business. so when you think of...

Artificial intelligence that is becoming more and more powerful by the day. i will talk to ginny rometty, the head of ibm and will watson take our jobs or make our jobs better. but first, heres my take. donald trump has done america a great public service. no, really. by taking advantage of the countrys tax laws in such a spectacular fashion, he has shun a spotlight on the corruption that is at the heart of american politics, the tax code. see, when most people discuss taxes they tend to talk ...

What we want our doctors to do. they spend time understanding you. an average doctor visit, as you know, can be a very small period of time. this is a world where its going to augment what professionals do and what each of us do. >> now, in the movie business, the art of making the trailer is seen as a very soft scale, something that you have to do, appreciating what an audience will like, how it will evoke certain emotions and so a successful movie trailer has been seen as a very fine art skill...

What i really envision -- and this is an important point about cognitive. its goal is not to replace anyone. in fact, its really been our goal, its been about not artificial intelligence, its about augmenting intelligence and helping people make better decisions. and thats, in fact, what we are doing. i mentioned we do work and i see this era doing work for both what you would call every day decisions as well as what i would call solving the insoleable and you mentioned health care. heres how it...

Her head and watson is looking at 22 million articles. >> millions and millions now. >> and presumably with access to millions of articles and that much data, watson must make better diagnosis than an average doctor. >> it will help an average doctor, absolutely. and that is the point. because you wont see a world class oncologist but your general doctor is going to have that access to help them do their job. and then they actually can do what we want our doctors to do. they spend time with you ...

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>> so here is how it would go with the diagnosis. cancer, the oncology adviser is rolling out and been developed and watson has been taught by some of the best institutions in the world, the cancer center here in new york and weve done with cleveland clinic and mayo clinic, nd anderson and systems abroad and what a doctor would do to assist, and watson has been able and read all of the literature on cancer and all of the journals and the texts and your emr, your medical record which could be hun...