What's On Your Mind?

When we were children, the world was new to us. We couldn't understand it but we could see it, touch it, smell it, and much more with our sensory organs. But as we grew older our teachers, parents, etc. taught us how society and the physical world functions, allowing us to eventually form new perspectives to understand the world around us. As the age of big data and ever-improving computational machines arrived, researchers started to think of machines the same way; blank slates that when fed collections of data (acting as the teacher), it can start to form new insights about the system described by the dataset. Particularly the most famous example of this is IBM's Watson, an artificial intelligence capable of extracting important pieces of data and providing analysis and insights to predict workplace and industry outcomes.