Rometty at a conference at the new cornell tech campus in new york city and asked her about ibms commitment to developing artificial intelligence, or cognitive computing. Ginni we will need help with decisions with the complexity of what is out there, and it doesnt matter what profession you are in. It was this idea that you could help any division be better. I am always reminded of a statistic that studies have been done that, when asked, what percentage of your decisions are right, what percentage would you guess . Megan 100 . [laughter] ginni studies, on average, one third are great decisions, one third not optimal, and one third are wrong. When you think about that and how much we have estimated a market to make better decisions. That is why we are calling it cognitive. When we think about man and machine not man versus machine, this is an era that will play out for decades. Megan a lot of people know watson. Can you talk to us about watson and make it more real world for the peopl
David i dont consider myself a journalist, nevertheless i nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being in interviewer, even though i have a day job. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . Did you always know that you wanted to run fidelity, and did you feel pressure to run it when you were younger . I never felt any pressure to and i certainly never knew that i would actually get to the position that i have gotten to now. I was always interested in the business, it was impossible not to learn about it. Between my grandfather and my father, they were both passionate. And they both loved the idea of building a business that focused on taking care of its customers and i always wanted to be involved with it. But of course, when you are young, you do not know where life is going to take you. David your grandfather started the company in 1946. Abigail he began life as a lawyer. The family word is he was frustrated and bore