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For once Bill was the calmer one. “Actually, we’re better off now that we know what kind of partner IBM really is. If this happened once, it will happen again. We’ve got to close the AT&T deal right away.”
Jerry Kaplan • Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure
he posted on the Stanford site in 1995, he talked about “a new project” to generate personalized movie ratings. “The way it works is as follows,” he wrote. “You rate the movies you have seen. Then the system finds other users with similar tastes to extrapolate how much you like other movies.”
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Mervin Kelly, Jim Fisk, William Shockley, Claude Shannon, John Pierce, and William Baker.
Jon Gertner • The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
So how exactly does a human differ from Watson, such that we ascribe free will to the human but not to the computer program? We can identify several factors. Even though Watson is a better Jeopardy! player than most if not all humans, it is nonetheless not nearly as complex as a human neocortex. Watson does possess a lot of knowledge, and it does
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Thomas J. Watson Sr., founder of IBM, stepped from the shadows. Watson offered my father a job, and a Branch Rickey–Jackie Robinson moment ensued: the start of an unknown chapter in the history of modern-day computers.