terry,
your link doesn't work
can you check it out?
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From: PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Terence Love
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 9:34 PM
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Dear Klaus, Jerry and all,
Last night in my email appeared this story about the redesign of Watson from TV performer to designer.
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/ibm-watson-the-inside-story-of-how-the-j
eopardy-winning-supercomputer-was-born-and-what-it-wants-to-do-next/?tag=nl.
e101&s_cid=e101&ttag=e101&ftag=TRE684d531
It discusses the role of Watson as a designer of cancer treatments (all of course using natural language processing interactions with patient, doctors and existing knowledge).
Then more importantly, it discusses Watson's potential future roles across a wide variety of professional fields in which social, environmental and ethical issues abound. The whole design of Watson is driven by designers in high level engineering and mathematics
Its quite important to understand that Watson is very different beastie from Siri which is simplistically mechanical in what it does. The difference reflects what I've been trying to explain about mathematics as seen by people who only did maths at school and advanced maths.
Four questions, two practical and two hypothetical, for which I'd be really interested in your answers, to understand how you feel about this kind of
thing:
1. Which group of designers, engineering or Art and Design do you see as being responsible for Watson and its work in the social, cultural, environmental and cultural realms?
2. If you read through the article in full, it will be obvious that one of the next possibilities for Watson is as a designer. It should be possible to ask Watson simple questions like, give me tow optimised best designs for the following design brief. This is for any design field and for designs that until now have required multi-disciplinary design teams. It can also take into account discussion with and feedback from stakeholders (evidenced by its ability at Jeopardy). Interestingly Watson boxes are neither particularly expensive or large and thus are likely within reach of many design firms. The questions is: 'What do you feel are likely to be the practical effects on the design industry, design education and the quality of design outputs when Watson reaches the potential it demonstrated in Jeopardy across the different design fields?
3. In this future that includes Watson and Watson-like computers in competition to human designers in the Art and Design fields, what do you see as the specific niches that might offer advantage for human designers?
4. What changes do you see need to be made to university design courses?
Best wishes ,
Terry
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Diethelm
And design thinking is human thought in service to wise, artful, gracious
making in the world.
Jerry
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