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Like much of IBM, Watson was/is a good platform for doing certain tasks, but blown completely out of proportion by IBM marketing. Not to mention that they now e
by pm90 8y ago
Like much of IBM, Watson was/is a good platform for doing certain tasks, but blown completely out of proportion by IBM marketing. Not to mention that they now explicitly use it as a branding tool ("Watson Cloud", "Watson Health" etc.)
On the one hand, you have Google open sourcing AI tools, courses, adding TPU-enabled machines on their cloud and using their own AI tools to do some pretty neat stuff. On the other, you have IBM marketing deliberately deceiving ordinary consumers as to what its capable of. Its not that hard to take a side.
Disclaimer: I do not currently work for either company
- threeseed 8y agoI don't understand your point here. Google is not a competitor to IBM and so there is no "choice" to be made between the two. Sure Google has open sourced some great technologies (as have many others) but they are raw, low-level tools for Data Scientists to use. They aren't OOTB products ordinary people can use.
- whymauri 8y agoI thought one of Watson's main projected uses was healthcare. Isn't Google's stake in healthcare via DeepMind actually make them competitors in that sense? Unless I'm missing something here, I have not researched Watson a lot.
- wavefunction 8y agoThey're competitors in the sense that neither are worth anything to the average medical Doctor at this point. I don't mean this as a disparagement, merely as a dispassionate observation. Doctors need alerts about contra-indications of drugs they and their patients' other doctors have prescribed more than they need AI-derived diagnoses, for example.
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- rscho 8y agoI regret having only one upvote to give you. The state of information flow in today's clinical settings is depressingly bad, especially when you see what computers can do today. The focus on trendy techs we are experiencing in hospitals really reflects how backwards people have their priorities.
- ddmd1 8y agoGoogle absolutely competes with IBM in the cloud hosting space and MLaaS space with offerings like ML Engine.
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