Citigroup just hired a brilliant consultant called Watson to build out its digital banking. This very same Watson also advises healthcare companies such as WellPoint and, in his time off, took the top prize last year on Jeopardy!, the television quiz show. According to his friends, Watson has other corporate gigs that he is coy about, and will soon earn more than $1bn annually. His astronomical income puts him in the top 1 per cent of the top 1 per cent of all American workers. Or rather, it would if he were human. He is a machine.
花旗集團(Citigroup)剛剛聘請了一位名叫沃森(Watson)的天才顧問，幫助其增強數字銀行業務。這位沃森還同時爲包括WellPoint在內的醫療服務公司提供諮詢，去年，還在工作之餘獲得了電視智力競賽節目《危險邊緣》(Jeopardy!)的頭獎。據沃森的朋友講，他還有不願透露的在其他企業擔任的職務，年收入很快就會超過10億美元。這一天文數字的收入使他成爲美國打工者中的超級精英——更準確的說，如果「他」是人類的話。但它是一臺機器。