How natural language and logical reasoning are being used to develop cancer drugs

Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! In 2015, David Ferrucci – the award-winning artificial intelligence (AI) researcher who led the development of IBM Watson -- which won the television quiz show Jeopardy in 2011 against two of the game's top champions -- noticed that most AI systems failed to understand the meaning behind language. That meant they couldn't provide rich, reasoned explanations for any output. That's when Ferrucci founded New York City-based AI research and technology company Elemental Cognition, to tackle one of the most difficult challenges facing the future of AI: Developing the ability to reason and understand beyond statistical machine learning and data analytics, overcome bias and provide intelligence at scale.