IBM Watson Health slashes workforce
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IBM Watson Health slashes workforce
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#2Very sad for long time IBMers. But Is it the beginning of the much controversial AI Winter revival ?
Re: IBM Watson Health slashes workforce
#3Very sad for long time IBMers. But Is it the beginning of the much controversial AI Winter revival ?
It seems Watson was founded on the false premise that lots of hand coded things could be called an “AI”. It’s the victim of its own winter, because it was never going to live up to its own hype.
Re: IBM Watson Health slashes workforce
#4Very sad for long time IBMers. But Is it the beginning of the much controversial AI Winter revival ?
It seems Watson was founded on the false premise that lots of hand coded things could be called an “AI”. It’s the victim of its own winter, because it was never going to live up to its own hype.
Interesting. Do you have some references about this 'hand coded things' ?
Re: IBM Watson Health slashes workforce
#5Very sad for long time IBMers. But Is it the beginning of the much controversial AI Winter revival ?
It seems Watson was founded on the false premise that lots of hand coded things could be called an “AI”. It’s the victim of its own winter, because it was never going to live up to its own hype.
Yeah I kinda remember reading it being accused of being vaporware. Then I googled "Watson vaporware" and got the following [1]. Definitely think they are in that part of the hype cycle.
[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607965/a-reality-check-fo...
edit: "trough of disillusionment" is what I was looking for
Re: IBM Watson Health slashes workforce
#6Very sad for long time IBMers. But Is it the beginning of the much controversial AI Winter revival ?
It seems Watson was founded on the false premise that lots of hand coded things could be called an “AI”. It’s the victim of its own winter, because it was never going to live up to its own hype.
I couldn't have put it better myself.
Participating in Jeopardy was quite an achievement, but to extrapolate that system and selling it as a "solve all" is to over promise.
Re: IBM Watson Health slashes workforce
#7Very sad for long time IBMers. But Is it the beginning of the much controversial AI Winter revival ?
My friend who survived the layoffs indicated that this was due to in large part changes in the political/regulatory landscape that made it so the companies they were working with would no longer require the features that IBM was providing.
Re: IBM Watson Health slashes workforce
#8Very sad for long time IBMers. But Is it the beginning of the much controversial AI Winter revival ?
It seems Watson was founded on the false premise that lots of hand coded things could be called an “AI”. It’s the victim of its own winter, because it was never going to live up to its own hype.
Do you imagine that other, more successful "AI" services from large companies do not involve a lot of hand-coded things?
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#9Is there a full breakdown of scope anywhere? I know there have been major complaints about Watson Health before, but I still can't tell if this marks a retreat from the program, or just a harsher-than-usual instance of the sort of layoffs pretty common for acquisitions.
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#10I'm an MD, and I dabble in programming and AI/DL. While I don't really care much about Watson in particular, the pervasiveness of the "enter healthcare = death" equation is worrisome to me. And it should worry you, too.
There's a lot of potential for good applications of this type of tech in healthcare, but the barriers to actually getting it off the ground strangle it in the crib.