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People in the AI community have spoken out against Watson because it's more marketing than tech. Some feared that it was setting machine learning / AI up on a p
by aabajian 10y ago
People in the AI community have spoken out against Watson because it's more marketing than tech. Some feared that it was setting machine learning / AI up on a pedestal that would give false hopes. It looks like those fears are now realized. I hope this doesn't further entrench naysayers against machine learning in medicine. Watson was a rules-based system from the get go and (to my knowledge) only recently started adding deep learning.
- transcranial 10y agoIBM bought Merge Healthcare for $1B, presumably to gain access to vast amounts of their imaging data. Would love to see some developments on the deep learning front from them, but sadly I doubt it'll ever break through the fog of marketing/PR BS that always seems to surround Watson.