Your Artificially Intelligent Agent  The moment that Watson
became the Jeopardy champion will be remembered as a watershed
moment in human history. It is the Gutenburg Bible of our time.
Media interest in Watson seems to have reawakened this month,
with IBM now talking about how exactly Watson is being
implemented to help make difficult medical diagnoses. In this
area where humans just can’t process the amount of data
necessary to make the best decision possible, Watson could be
truly revolutionary. For now, Watson’s work will still need to
be checked by meatspace doctors to make sure he doesn’t send
some poor soul off to have a limb amputated unnecessarily, but
this does not take away from the awesome power of data
processing this will be putting into the hands of doctors.  This
got me thinking about how life is going to change when we all
have access to our own Watson. This raises important questions
about how much control over our lives these intelligent agents
will have. If you could have a hyper-connect