Tanmay Bakshi, the youngest Watson programmer

Team FactorDaily June 23, 2016

Last week we wrote about Tanmay Bakshi, a software programming whiz who is only 12 years old. He is also among the youngest developers building applications around Watson, IBM’s artificial intelligence platform.

As promised, here’s our interview with him. In this interview with Pankaj Mishra, Editor-in-Chief of FactorDaily, Tanmay Bakshi talks about programming, future of jobs and even artificial intelligence.


               

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