“One of the examples that I really love about AI is going beyond question answering and saying, ‘Listen, if I have a position or an idea, can a Watson-like system give me the pros and cons of the idea?’ You know, ‘Do I have to go into this market? Do I have to make an acquisition? Do I have to worry about the economy when there is a certain set of parameters, maybe immigration, maybe tax laws, maybe whatever? What are the pros and cons?’

“So if the machine could give you, in a digestible fashion, the pros and cons that you,...