IBM’s Watson Health is sold off in parts
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IBM’s Watson Health is sold off in parts
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#2Who could have seen it coming?
IBM created a machine that could win at Jeopardy, not a universal expert or problem solver.
Say what you want about Google, but they didn't claim to solve any practical problems by creating AlphaZero.
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#3What was the deal with this? Was it that the internal management team just mis-managed the product they had?
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#4"billed as a revolution in medicine" by whom? IBM's marketing department?
Anything "Watson" (together with 95% of that company - optimistically) is marred too deep in bureaucracy and yes men to do anything productive and innovative.
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#5No post body was provided.
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#6There should be a way to bet (short) against “projects” or products, not the whole company. When they hyped about Watson Health, I “knew” it will fail.
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#7I could be mistaken because it’s been a while, but I read that Watson’s diagnostic capabilities turned out to be mostly marketing and that eventually IBM ended up hiring teams of doctors to process the diagnosis requests that were coming into Watson.
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#8What was the deal with this? Was it that the internal management team just mis-managed the product they had?
On a long enough time horizon, everyone's survival rate goes to zero.
[0]: [Why Cities Keep on Growing, Corporations Always Die, and Life Gets Faster] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOnWowd-7HQ
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#9A friend of mine wanted to show off his Tesla by making it come to the front of the restaurant from where he parked it. Like he hit a button and it was to drive up. It got stuck somehow and was diagonal in the row. He was like “ehh sometimes it doesn’t work.”
AI in general is very over stated. When it works it’s great, when it doesn’t (which is often) then you lose all trust in it.
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#10I could be mistaken because it’s been a while, but I read that Watson’s diagnostic capabilities turned out to be mostly marketing and that eventually IBM ended up hiring teams of doctors to process the diagnosis requests that were coming into Watson.
Sounds like what happened at Theranos! I read the analysis Watson was generating was ultimately just ignored by doctors because it came to inaccurate conclusions, so that makes sense.