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Elementary! IBM gets serious about Watson

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I spent an hour with Mike Rhodin, senior VP of the Watson group, on Monday night at the new HQ at Cooper Union Square. He seems like the perfect guy to sell artificial intelligence to the masses: He's intense but not too intense, nice suit but no tie, and there was no hint of computer jargon in the whole conversation.

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One thing's for sure: IBM needs a revenue generator. Revenues have declined every year since 2011.

What I wanted to know first was, how much buy-in has there been from the top at IBM? Rhodin says he has complete support, and as evidence he points out that the entire operation is being run as a start-up within IBM. He reports monthly directly to Rometty and a few board members.

He refuses to be drawn into any discussion of how big a business Watson can become. He won't talk revenue projections, noting only that Watson is currently "part of IBM's $20 billion analytics business." He noted that Deloitte estimates the cognitive computing market will expand in five years to $50 billion in the U.S. alone.

There are several headwinds for IBM and Watson:

1) Too big to succeed, and potent competition. IBM is big. Really big, and there's some doubt it can pull off something like this. The current belief is that the only way any technology could advance is if it were invented by a 19-year old in his basement.

Read MoreArtificial intelligence could end mankind: Hawking

Maybe. But that's an easier call to make for social media than it is for artificial intelligence.

Invention does not always come from kids or small companies. IBM will have 2,000 people working on Watson by year end.

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The Grid: Artificial intelligence as your personal graphic designer

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A preorder campaign has been launched for a web design platform that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to bring people closer to the quality websites they wish they had without a lot of bother and time. The offer: Any user, regardless of knowledge of web development, can use the platform to get an elegant website. The target: Anyone wanting to start a business or showcase talent with a good web site, without the fear of having to drop beans into pipes of a template-driven ordeal with results that in the end disappoint. Say hello to something called The Grid, which proposes to become a new way to create beautiful websites using AI to design the site based on content and user goals. The Grid engine auto-designs; the technology involves algorithms which analyze the media and apply palettes that can keep the messages consistent.

"A template isn't for you," says a promotional video. Your site should reflect who you are and should look good doing it. Problems arise because designing and developing are time-consuming jobs, and would it not be better if the website made itself? In a sense that is what The Grid does: no coding, no walled gardens, no templates, says the video. You tell The Grid what you want and its AI builds a solution tailor-made to the purposemore customers,, or more followers. What is more, The Grid site can adapt and adjust content.

The team explains how it adapts: everything you throw at it - videos, images, text, urls and more, is automatically shaped. Instead of spending time cropping images, for example, The Grid crops images to fit any size on any display. If the site owner should want to add e-commerce capabilities, then the user can add products and a shopping cart optimized for desktop and mobile automatically appears. Remove the products and the shopping cart disappears. "The layout changes as you add content."

The team behind The Grid, founded in San Francisco in 2010, consists of web developers and designers. "Template making platforms take hours, if not days to make something you'd be proud of," said The Grid CEO and cofounder Dan Tocchini. "We've spent the last few years building a form of artificial intelligence that functions like your own personal graphic designer, able to think about your brand and present it in the best way possible. The design adapts to your content, not the other way around."

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The Grid's crowdfunding campaign officially launched Wednesday, and the company is hoping to release the first accounts by late spring 2015. The software will retail for $25 per month but, according to the press release, a limited number of founding memberships will be given to pre-order supporters at a locked-in rate of $8 per month in addition to other features and benefits.

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3 years after 'Jeopardy,' IBM's Watson gets serious

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I spent an hour with Mike Rhodin, senior VP of the Watson group, on Monday night at the new HQ at Cooper Union Square. He seems like the perfect guy to sell artificial intelligence to the masses: He's intense but not too intense, nice suit but no tie, and there was no hint of computer jargon in the whole conversation.

Read MoreYou may soon getfinancial advice from a machine

One thing's for sure: IBM needs a revenue generator. Revenues have declined every year since 2011.

What I wanted to know first was, how much buy-in has there been from the top at IBM? Rhodin says he has complete support, and as evidence he points out that the entire operation is being run as a start-up within IBM. He reports monthly directly to Rometty and a few board members.

He refuses to be drawn into any discussion of how big a business Watson can become. He won't talk revenue projections, noting only that Watson is currently "part of IBM's $20 billion analytics business." He noted that Deloitte estimates the cognitive computing market will expand in five years to $50 billion in the U.S. alone.

There are several headwinds for IBM and Watson:

1) Too big to succeed, and potent competition. IBM is big. Really big, and there's some doubt it can pull off something like this. The current belief is that the only way any technology could advance is if it were invented by a 19-year old in his basement.

Read MoreArtificial intelligence could end mankind: Hawking

Maybe. But that's an easier call to make for social media than it is for artificial intelligence.

Invention does not always come from kids or small companies. IBM will have 2,000 people working on Watson by year end.

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The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Robots and Beyond

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Speakers: Peter Bock, Professor Emeritus of Engineering, Department of Computer Science, George Washington University, Paul Cohen, Program Manager, Information Innovation Office, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; Professor and Founding Director, School of Information: Science, Technology, and Arts, University of Arizona, and Andrew McAfee, Principal Research Scientist and Cofounder, Initiative on the Digital Economy, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Presider: Amy Alving, Member, Board of Directors, Fannie Mae; Former Chief Technology Officer, Science Applications International Corporation October 2, 2014, Washington, DC Council on Foreign Relations

ALVING: Good afternoon and welcome to the Council on Foreign Relations' discussion on the future of artificial intelligence, robots and beyond. I'm May Alving, and I'll be your moderator for today. We have a very distinguished panel here, and in your information, you have a detailed bio on everybody on the stage, so we won't go into those specifics.

But briefly, let me introduce Professor Peter Bock, emeritus from George Washington University, who has decades of experience in building and developing artificial intelligence systems. Next to me we have Paul Cohen, also an academic from the University of Arizona, who is now at my alma mater, DARPA, working for the Defense Department's most advanced research and development organization. And we also have Andy McAfee from MIT, who comes to this from a business and economic background with long experience looking at the impact of artificial intelligence from an economics perspective.

So we'll start today with 30 minutes of moderated discussion amongst the panelists, and then we'll turn it over to the audience for Q&A.

I think in this area, it's important to make sure that we have some common understanding of what we're talking about when we say artificial intelligence. And so I'll ask Peter to start off by describing to us, what is artificial intelligence more than just smart software?

BOCK: Yeah, in my TED talk, I described people who come up to me and say that AI is really the field that tries to solve very, very, very hard problems, and I always found that definition a bit smarmy, because all of us here are involved in solving very, very, very hard problems. That's not it at all.

It's a general purpose problem-solving engine that has a more or less broad domain of applications so that a single solution can apply to many different situations even in different fields. That's beginning -- a beginning definition for AI, and also probably a longer definition, an engine that can eventually be broadened into beginning to imitate, shall we say, or, in fact, emulate the cognition of our own thinking patterns.

I think I'll stop there and let the rest jump in.

ALVING: OK. So, Paul, I know that from your perspective, artificial intelligence is about more than just crunching a lot of numbers. You know, the buzzword in -- out in the world today is big data, big data is going to solve all our problems. But big data isn't sufficient, is that correct?

COHEN: That's right. So do you want me to talk about what's AI or why big data isn't a sufficient?

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The future of artificial intelligence: Computers will take your job

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The field of artificial intelligence may not be able to create a robotic vacuum cleaner that never knocks over a vase, at least not within a couple of years, but intelligent machines will increasingly replace knowledge workers in the near future, a group of AI experts predicted.

An AI machine that can learn the same way humans do, and has the equivalent processing power of a human brain, is still a few years off, the experts said. But AI programs that can reliably assist with medical diagnosis and offer sound investing advice are on the near horizon, said Andrew McAfee, co-founder of the Initiative on the Digital Economy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

For decades, Luddites have mistakenly predicted that automation will create large unemployment problems, but those predictions may finally come true as AI matures in the next few years, McAfee said Monday during a discussion on the future of AI at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C.

Innovative companies will increasingly combine human knowledge with AI knowledge to refine results, McAfee said. What smart companies are doing is buttressing a few brains with a ton of processing power and data, he said. The economic consequences of that are going to be profound and are going to come sooner than a lot of us think.

Many knowledge workers today get paid to do things that computers will soon be able to do, McAfee predicted. I dont think a lot of employers are going to be willing to pay a lot of people for what theyre currently doing, he said.

Software has already replaced human payroll processors, and AI will increasingly move up the skill ladder to replace U.S. middle-class workers, he said. He used the field of financial advising as an example.

Its a bad joke that humans almost exclusively produce financial advice today, he said. Theres no way a human can keep on top of all possible financial instruments, analyze their performance in any rigorous way, and assemble them in a portfolio that makes sense for where you are in your life.

But AI still has many limitations, with AI scientists still not able to solve the problem of common sense, of endowing a computer with the knowledge that every 5-year-old has, said Paul Cohen, program manager in the Information Innovation Office at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and founding director of the University of Arizona School of Informations science, technology and arts program.

There is, however, a class of problems where AI will do magnificent things, by pulling information out of huge data sets to make increasingly specific distinctions, he added. IBMs recent decision to focus its Watson AI computer on medical diagnostics is a potential game changer, he said.

Medical diagnosis is about making finer and finer distinctions, he said. Online marketing is about making finer and finer distinctions. If you think about it, much of the technology humans interact with is about putting you in a particular bucket.

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The future of artificial intelligence: Will computers take your job?

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Artificial intelligence experts predict that computers in coming years will increasingly replace knowledge workers

The field of artificial intelligence may not be able to create a robotic vacuum cleaner that never knocks over a vase, at least not within a couple of years, but intelligent machines will increasingly replace knowledge workers in the near future, a group of AI experts predicted.

An AI machine that can learn the same way humans do, and has the equivalent processing power of a human brain, is still a few years off, the experts said. But AI programs that can reliably assist with medical diagnosis and offer sound investing advice are on the near horizon, said Andrew McAfee, co-founder of the Initiative on the Digital Economy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

For decades, Luddites have mistakenly predicted that automation will create large unemployment problems, but those predictions may finally come true as AI matures in the next few years, McAfee said Monday during a discussion on the future of AI at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C.

Innovative companies will increasingly combine human knowledge with AI knowledge to refine results, McAfee said. "What smart companies are doing is buttressing a few brains with a ton of processing power and data," he said. "The economic consequences of that are going to be profound and are going to come sooner than a lot of us think."

Many knowledge workers today get paid to do things that computers will soon be able to do, McAfee predicted. "I don't think a lot of employers are going to be willing to pay a lot of people for what they're currently doing," he said.

Software has already replaced human payroll processors, and AI will increasingly move up the skill ladder to replace U.S. middle-class workers, he said. He used the field of financial advising as an example.

It's a "bad joke" that humans almost exclusively produce financial advice today, he said. "There's no way a human can keep on top of all possible financial instruments, analyze their performance in any rigorous way, and assemble them in a portfolio that makes sense for where you are in your life."

But AI still has many limitations, with AI scientists still not able to "solve the problem of common sense, of endowing a computer with the knowledge that every 5-year-old has," said Paul Cohen, program manager in the Information Innovation Office at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and founding director of the University of Arizona School of Information's science, technology and arts program.

There is, however, a class of problems where AI will do "magnificent things," by pulling information out of huge data sets to make increasingly specific distinctions, he added. IBM's recent decision to focus its Watson AI computer on medical diagnostics is a potential "game changer," he said.

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