“In the future, every decision that mankind makes is going to be informed by a cognitive system like Watson,” she said, “and our lives will be better for it.”
Listening in were the crowds of engineers, designers, doctors, bankers, researchers, and reporters that IBM had ferried over to a massive glass-and-steel structure on the banks of the East River in Brooklyn.
The occasion was a new event, World of Watson, designed to showcase the “ecosystem” of innovation happening around Watson, IBM’s signature artificial-intelligence system.
