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David Ferrucci: IBM Watson, Jeopardy & Deep Conversations with AI

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Predicting in a Highly Dynamic Environment

In a highly dynamic environment, full of uncertainty, be able to predict. Can I take a small amount of prior data and learn the pattern, and then predict what's gonna happen next, accurately and consistently? What do you need for that, by the way? You need to have an understanding of the way the world works in order to be able to unroll it into the future. If I can figure out what's even worth predicting, I'm smarter,. meaning I'm figuring out what path is gonna get me toward a goal. So now I can predict, but I can't really articulate how I'm going through that process, what my underlying theory is for predicting.

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