When explanatory late-night comedian John Oliver urged his viewers to weigh in on proposed net neutrality regulations in June 2014, the sudden onslaught of public comments – more than 45,000 were submitted by the following day, according to news reports – crashed the website of the Federal Communications Commission.
Some might say that’s a win for civic engagement, but such an overwhelming response also creates a costly and time-consuming problem: all of those comments must be reviewed and considered by real, live human beings. That takes time and money.
Enter Notice & Comment (N&C), a growing Baltimore tech startup which has developed a solution using IBM’s Watson – the same artificial intelligence technology that triumphed over two human competitors on “Jeopardy!” a few years ago.
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A Video Conversation with John Davis, CEO and Founder of N&C Inc.