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Re:IBM’s Watson Health is sold off in parts by themanmaran on Sunday January 23, 2022 @10:48AM (#30047030)
> Watson on Jeopardy

Marketing aside. Lets not forget how cool that was. It was a great public demonstation that AI / ML is possible now.

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Re:IBM’s Watson Health is sold off in parts by five82 on Sunday January 23, 2022 @11:40AM (#30047566)
That was the biggest problem. It wasn’t quite possible yet, at least with how IBM wanted to use it. Rometty and her executives believed their own marketing hype. It’s why, billions of dollars later, Watson Health failed because it couldn’t make better cancer treatment decisions. Watson Talent Management failed because it couldn’t make better hiring decisions. The tech was misused.
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