At one point in the eighties, I owned over 10 percent of NYT, but I watched in frustration as management bartered away serious money for the aging Cowles magazine stable, invested in the teachingmachine craze and divested a promising foothold in a cable TV system.
After several iterations and teaching the machine what answers are accurate, it is expected that Watson will develop enough expertise to assist a doctor in a practical situation.
It was her mother who would have been the helpful one, taking over the kitchen, singing songs to Akash and teaching him Bengali nursery rhymes, throwing loads of laundry into the machine.