“At the same time, Watson Discovery Advisor will incorporate Watson question-answering capabilities, optimized for discovery. After people create new insights, they can engage in dialogues with the system to clarify their thinking and test propositions. The idea is that humans will collaborate with machines in new ways that deliver better results than people or computers could produce on their own.”

Cognitive Computing in the New Era of Discovery - A Smarter Planet Blog
https://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2014/08/watson-e-discovery.html

 

“To quote from Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011) by Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, ‘cognition is embodied; you think with your body, not only with your brain’.”

Tom Chatfield - Technology and intimacy
https://aeon.co/magazine/technology/tom-chatfield-technology-intimacy/
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“Ethics, philosophy, law: all of these assumptions underpin so many decisions,” he says. “If you look at airbags, for example, inherent in that technology is the assumption that you’re going to save a lot of lives, and only kill a few”

Self-Driving Cars Get a Code of Ethics | MIT Technology Review
https://www.technologyreview.com/news/539731/how-to-help-self-driving-cars-make-ethical-decisions/
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