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Q and A Interview

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  1. The title usually includes the name of the subject being interviewed
  2. The author usually gets a byline directly beneath the title.
  3. The actual interview itself should start with a short introduction that explains to the reader who is being interviewed, when and where the interview is taking place (to provide context), and what the main topic(s) of the interview will be.
  4. The rest of the interview looks very much like a transcript 
    • the interviewer's words can be prefaced with his/her own name.  This could be both first and last name, or just a last name.
    • The subject's name precedes his/her responses.  As with the interviewer, this could be both first and last name, or just a last name.  
  5. The interview usually concludes with a question designed to provide an answer that gives closure to the overall interview. 

 

 

 

 

Example of a Q & A questions posed to the human who works with the IBM supercomputer "Watson" by a TIME Reporter

TIME Magazine: Monday, Mar. 07, 2011

10 Questions for Watson's Human

 

TIME: Why aren't you letting Watson speak for himself today?
Human: Watson is trained to answer questions for Jeopardy! It's not an interactive dialogue system, so it can't conduct its own interviews. You can imagine giving it information so it could answer [impromptu] questions, but it would still be responding only from content it's been given and analyzed.

 

TIME: What about aspirational questions? Could Watson respond if it was asked, "What do you want to be doing in five years?"
HUMAN: It would have to be given some information about itself as an entity in the world in order to do that. But that's not IBM's focus. Watson is designed to deeply analyze existing content and help people make decisions, not to be an independent entity. (See pictures of Watson and its creators.)

 

TIME: People have said that Watson functions at the level of a precocious child. Do you agree?
Human: When an artificial-intelligence system can perform a particular task, we have to be careful not to look beyond that task. Take Deep Blue, the [IBM] system that beat a grand-champion chess master. Few adults are smart enough to do that. But Deep Blue wasn't a system that could go off and even approach a child's ability to do language, to move, to think, to interact.

 

TIME:And yet Watson does understand natural language.
Human: But only in a way that we call statistical machine learning. It gives you the answer that makes sense to you, but it doesn't mean anything to the computer.

 

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