Annika Grosse feels like working in a startup. Although she has been working at IBM for many years, she feels a new vibe in her job for the first time. This makes her incredibly happy and most people in the room seem to be a bit jealous of her when she explains her new role and job description. Annika is responsible for the European roll-out of IBM’s supercomputer Watson. Most of you might have heard about Watson when „he“ won Jeopardy against a human being. But do you know what is actually behind that superbrain?
Computational Creativity
Watson is not a machine like those we have known so far. What’s new? The amount of data that Watson can anaylze and the fact that he is able to learn from humans is the new hot shit. „It is in the nature of humans to come up with new ideas“ and this is what IBM told Watson to do. Watson has cognitive skills, is able to understand language including pro-verbs, jokes and poetry. Watson is able to be creative. Or at least to suggest creative actions to chefs, fashion designers, bankers, Watson works in the area of health or development of software. The system sees food as science and chemistry, is able to combine ingredients that never have been tried out before and creates recopies that inspire Michelin Star chefs. And just the same way that Watson is able to suggest recopies for dinners, he is also able to suggest recopies for medicine cocktails to improve healing therapies. The field of employment in the health care sector are huge as the system is able to gain insights from vast amounts of data – basically amounts of data that no human brain could ever be able to analyze.
In these times now it is not hard to collect data. The challenge is to gain smart insights from that data. And a Smart City needs smart analyzed data. Our panelists did all agree, that analyzing data will provide insights about interrelating topics and moreover can fosters cooperation of parties that may not have thought of working together yet. IBM’s key formula when talking about Smart Cities is „information + cooperation + analytics“.
And Hamburg could surely benefit from this technology if IBM was able to create more processes where humans and the machine work together. From traffic, health care or the logistics sector. There are many ways in which Watson could be used – and actually many cases in which Watson is used already. Critics argue that such a system might also allow for scenarios like the „Minority Report“. Today, especially in Germany, data security is a sensitive topic. The last scandals that revealed how much of our data is actually recorded by international authorities or how easy our data can be hacked by professionals, leave a bitter taste with the amazing skills of Watson. Will Watson know what I am about to do next when he knows enough about me?
In the end it depends on the humans who program the system and their intentions, what the end of the story will be. We are curious to find out: How would you use Watson?
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