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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 digital you need some way -- data is going to differentiate companies and how do you make sense of i...

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 don't prescribe to that pain of thought. part of that is your goal. i wouldn't call it artificial intelligence alone. artificial intelligence is around for many decades but it is one element that we are doing. what this is about is much more than that and the goal is different. the goal is to help you...

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 responding to and then looking for, in this movie, what are the elements that would duplicate that. and...

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 -- it's 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 it that way, as a service that can be embedded, it will touch billions of things, billions of peop...

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, here's my take. donald trump has done america a great public service. no, really. by taking advantage of the country's 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 about it in left-right terms. the right says the taxes are too high and the left worries that the ...