 Named after the first two presidents of IBM  Capable of giving precise, factual answers to questions posed in natural language  In the Jeopardy! Show, Watson wasn’t in the room behind  Over its three-year life, Watson stored the content of tens of millions of documents, which it now accessed to answer questions about almost anything

 You are hands free to do anything: have a drink for example  Big hope for people with disabilities and/or paralysation  Can’t always control our thoughts  Can easily misunderstand “commands” and “actual thoughts”

 ScienceDaily states that future surgeons might use a system recognizes hand gestures as commands to control a robotic scrub nurse or tell a computer to display medical images of the patient during an operation in the future  Both the hand-gesture recognition and robotic nurse innovations might help to reduce the length of surgeries and the potential for infection

- 90% - 10% - 50% Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) Winter Intelligence conference at University of Oxford on machine intelligence in January 2011