The document summarizes a presentation given by Jim Spohrer from IBM on smart service systems and cognitive assistants. Some key points:
- A service science perspective considers how service systems, value co-creation, and capabilities evolve through interactions between entities that have different capabilities, constraints, rights, and responsibilities.
- Cognitive systems and cognitive assistants can help augment and scale human expertise.
- IBM is working on developing cognitive assistants that can help with different occupations by assisting with various tasks.
- The vision is for cognitive technologies and assistants to augment and scale human expertise across many domains.