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IBM’s researchers are also considering other ways the technology at work in their current demo might help out in a workplace—for example, by having software log the relative contributions of different people to a discussion

I find that incredibly creepy and hope to god that never is developed.

If it records the -actual- contribution and not the number of words spoken I'd be all for it. I'd also want it to measure the amount of hot air people talk.

That's what I was thinking about. If Watson's cognition is as good as the article suggests, it can easily detect when one silent fellow speaks up once during the whole meeting and changes the overall flow of conversation completely.

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