The following is a conversation with David Farochi.

He led the team that built Watson,

the IBM question answering system

that beat the top humans in the world at the game of jeopardy.

For spending a couple hours with David,

I saw a genuine passion,

not only for abstract understanding of intelligence,

but for engineering it to solve real world problems

under real world deadlines and resource constraints.

Where science meets engineering

is where brilliant, simple ingenuity emerges.

People who work at joining it to

have a lot of wisdom earned through failures

and eventual success.

David is also the founder, CEO,

and chief scientist of elemental cognition,

a company working to engineer AI systems

that understand the world the way people do.

This is the Artificial Intelligence podcast.

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