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The team of developers I was on around 2014-2015 was asked to do some user experience testing sessions of a mobile app that was part of our company's partnershi
by grappler 5y ago
The team of developers I was on around 2014-2015 was asked to do some user experience testing sessions of a mobile app that was part of our company's partnership with IBM, which was using Watson to answer users' healthcare questions with a chat interface.
In short, we were not impressed, and basically said so in our feedback. Granted, that's just a few data points, and it was internal.
But besides that, the overall vibe I got from the very businessy, very not-engineer management behind the effort was that Watson was brilliant, as demonstrated on Jeopardy, and the main stuff left to do was some plumbing to connect our stuff to some of that Watson brilliance, and of course the business details of the partnership between the companies.
Glad I got out of there.