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There is so much marketing around Watson and so little data. I feel like a broken record every time this comes up, but where are the peer-reviewed research pape
by JunkDNA 13y ago
There is so much marketing around Watson and so little data. I feel like a broken record every time this comes up, but where are the peer-reviewed research papers with data showing Watson's superior utility in real world settings like hospitals?
- lincolnq 13y agoI don't quite understand why you're demanding this. As I see it, Watson is still pretty experimental and we're probably still learning what kind of stuff it's good or bad at. Why not build a few apps, throw it at hospitals or schools or other use cases, and see whether it actually helps anyone? Basically, I feel like you're asking for peer-reviewed papers that show that Dropbox is a good way to share files. Nobody would write a paper about that. They would just try Dropbox.
- willis77 13y agoA lot of the hype has been around using Watson as a medical decision support system, so yes, they do need peer-reviewed papers before "throwing it at hospitals". In medicine, you can't "see if it helps" without a controlled experiment. It's just too subtle to see when it's not helping, and also too late.
- the906 13y agoI believe if you look at the IBM sites you'll find a number of case studies that display some of the results of applications using Watson.
- codingdave 13y agoWhy do you expect IBM to hold back on marketing a product until someone has produced peer-reviewed research papers? Watson IS marketing. Always has been. It is a way to show off IBM's capabilities, in order to improve their brand and their bottom line. So now they are trying to monetize it as a product. If it has some academic interest, that is just an added bonus, but not its core purpose. This is just business in the corporate world, and there is no expectation of peer-reviewed research when selling software products.