This past summer, we learned that Watson was coming for all of our writing and editing jobs (gulp), but now it seems like IBM‘s supercomputer has its sights set on a newer, more glamorous career path—legendary songwriter.
In IBM’s latest ad campaign, the AI Jeopardy champion meets up with Bob Dylan to have a quick chat about language, Watson’s ability to read 800 million pages per second (Dylan responded with a nonplussed “That’s fast.”), and a potential musical collaboration in the future, even though Watson’s singing voice is a little, well, robotic.
Watch Dylan humor the supercomputer below, and make sure to catch Watson getting a lesson in sarcasm from his human rival Ken Jennings here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwh1INne97Q
