IBM Watson Overpromised and Underdelivered on AI Health Care

Post by colejohnson66 » Mon, Apr 08, 2019, 11:03 PM UTC

nickpsecurity wrote: post #90

telchar wrote: post #32

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That's not really true. The UMLS has a large graph of marked up medical domain knowledge that can be used. It's not as specific as one might want for developing an AI autodoc, but it's quite a bit better than what is available in most fields. It's actually quite similar to what one can derive from Wikipedia.

Quora has a nice set of answers about why machine learning isn't used so much in medical: https://www.quora.com/Why-isn%E2%80%99t-machine-learning-mor... Skip to Jae Won Joe's answer to see a case study with a patient showing the interactive process. Then, especially look at ending questions about missing or deceptive data. Seems like their good diagnoses comes from a combination of domain data and expertly reading p…

Post by colejohnson66 » Mon, Apr 08, 2019, 11:05 PM UTC

fybe wrote: post #111

During my time in IBM I was walking by the "main" Watson server everyday into work. I was always impressed at the package, and what ever they said it could do. Finally got my hands on it and was incredibly disappointed. Lacking features, archaic interface, and not delivering on what it was promised. Talked to some guys working for the Watson team and they told me that half of the AI stuff is just them doing it manual…

Post by Retra » Wed, Apr 10, 2019, 2:22 PM UTC

seibelj wrote: post #116

Retra wrote: post #115

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And blockchain peddlers can certainly over-promise/under-deliver without contradicting any of those points.

And VC funded startups in Silicon Valley over-promise/under-deliver to their investors and employees. Welcome to tech startups

Post by barbecue_sauce » Sat, Apr 13, 2019, 3:41 PM UTC

chaoticmass wrote: post #119

barbecue_sauce wrote: post #89

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The greatest thing about BlueMix was its promotional budget. Saw The Force Awakens on IBM's dime, and got about $50 worth of movie theater gift cards. All I had to do was sit through a 20 minute presentation about BlueMix case study integrations.

I saw Force Awakens via IBM as well, and I got a cool light saber toy! https://twitter.com/chaoticmass/status/677708888083439616 I did look at the BlueMix platform, and it seemed like a big mix of various APIs I could tap into. Some of them looked neat, but I never had a reason to really use any of them.