I get his cynicism from an idealist engineer's prospective. It's a problem for anyone who has applicable knowledge that meets a marketing/branding agency. Watso

I get his cynicism from an idealist engineer's prospective. It's a problem for anyone who has applicable knowledge that meets a marketing/branding agency. Watson was a new tool that could play jeopardy and IBM needed a way to sell the heck out of it. branding Watson as AI is the act of an increasingly desperate corporation. While true AI is a decade or two off, with each AI winter, an increasing number of human jobs are displaced. This next wave promises to be devastating to human productivity and a boon for machine productivity. The effects are real even if the intelligence isn't. When true AI is birthed, it won't need to be marketed. All that will be left are a few trillionaires, and food lines for the rest of us. About the future "Wealth will be based on how many robots you own and control."