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August 9, 2019
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Why Was IBM Watson a Flop in Medicine?

Robert J. Marks and Gary S. Smith discuss how the AI couldn’t identify which information in the tsunami of medical literature actually MATTERED
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August 9, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Medicine and Health

Last year, the IBM Health Initiative laid off a number of people, seemingly due to market disillusionment with the product.

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Robert J. Marks
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December 31, 2018
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1: IBM’s Watson Is NOT Our New Computer Overlord

AI help, not hype: It won at Jeopardy (with specially chosen “softball” questions) but is not the hoped-for aid to cancer specialists
Robert J. Marks
December 31, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence
One problem that has dogged Watson has nothing to do with AI or medicine. The journalism around the introduction of projects like Watson is long on the Gee Whiz! An Electronic Brain! It Won at Jeopardy! And it is short on systematic inquiry as to outcomes versus goals. Read More ›