OK, World of Watson was super cool. I learned a ton of things I didn't know. Here's a list (not in order of coolness):
1. Chef Watson is zany, but has some delicious creations. Who is Chef Watson? Take 10,000 recipes and analyze the ingredients and match the ingredients by their chemical and taste profiles and voila! new recipes designed my a computer. Ever has a corn flour cookie? Me neither, but guess what? It was delicious!
2. We are in the 3rd era of computing. The first was tabulation of data. The second was the automation of processes. The third and current era of computing is "cognitive", that is thinking. Machines that do what we humans don't do well.
3. IBM has invested $1billion with a capital B into cognitive technologies.
4. I ate a chocolate burrito with beef and fava beans. Sorry if that sounds gross, but in fact it wasn't. (I was really surprised).
5. The decision making in the future will be made by cognitive systems such as Watson
6. The goal of AI is not to create the Terminator, far from it. The goal of AI is to complement what we humans do well with support of deep computing technologies.
7. $31 billion in personal wealth is being advised by "robo-advisers"
8. Based on what we post on social media, they can extract our personality insights by the the words we use.
9. I asked the "Chef" behind Chef Watson what recipes didn't work when the computer spit them out (pun intended). He said none...since chefs can modify the ingredient amounts. Check it out here: https://www.ibmchefwatson.com/
10. Ever watched a TED talk? TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design. Who knew? Anyway IBM scanned all of the ted talks (thousands of hours) and now has a nifty little search engine where you can ask Watson things like "Whats the relationship between money and happiness?" and it brings back the relevant video clip(s) that answer the question. In like 3 seconds. check it out: http://watson.ted.com/
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