How IBM Watson Overpromised and Underdelivered on AI Health Care

My friend Phil Shaffer, a fellow retired Nuclear Radiologist, is an avid poster on Aunt Minnie. His AM post today about AI in general and Watson in particular is worthy of a wider audience, and here you are. It is based on an Engineering article in the IEEE Spectrum:How IBM Watson Overpromised and Underdelivered on AI Health Care. This is a cautionary tale for all who have anything to do with AI...If IBM stumbled in this venue, if IBM could fall victim to hype and hubris...  Well, we all knew that. Big hype, zero output.I wouldn ' t bother to post this non-news, if it were not for the other questions it brings up.IBM ’s bold attempt to revolutionize health care began in 2011. The day after Watson thoroughly defeated two human champions in the game of Jeopardy!, IBMannounced a new career path for its AI quiz-show winner: It would become an AI doctor. IBM would take the breakthrough technology it showed off on television —mainly, the ability to understand natural language—and apply it to medicine. Watson’s first commercial offerings for health care would be available in 18 to 24 months, the company promised.In fact, the projects that IBM announced that first day did not yield commercial products. In the eight years since, IBM has trumpeted many more high-profile efforts to develop AI-powered medical technology —many of which have fizzled, and a few of which have failed spectacularly. The company spent billions on acquisitions to bolster its internal efforts,...
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