Watson….AI…LMFAO…. Nothing but bs and smoke and mirrors…never scalable…everything was a science experiment…oh and by the way I spent years working in ibm research….
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When I left Watson Health the Merge product line was the only group that was performing well. IBM showed a lot of glitzy stuff to our customers but never succeeded in getting any Watson based imaging products off the ground. It looks like they haven't made an impact in oncology either. As for as I am concerned there was never a serious effort to implement Watson. I can't imagine anyone believing a word put out by IBM marketing.
The CDC…too funny!!! The CDC is like IBM…NO CLUE!!!
They're probably going to have to pay someone to haul it away like garbage ... just like they paid Global Foundries $1.5B to get rid of the Microelectronics Division 😒
Probably to the CDC. 🙃
I worked on AI applied to differential diagnosis at the NIH in the early 1990s. It turned out to be much more difficult than it appeared and I had a CONVEX vector supercomputer to implement it on.
Realistically I think perhaps the greatest benefit of such a system might to take advantage of a huge database to augment the decisionmaking process by suggesting obscure diagnoses that are outside the personal experience of a practicing physician.
In other words the patient who is bitten by some exotic animal or something like diagnosing HIV/AIDS in the early 1980s before it was widely understood.
In the mainstream, medical AI has failed miserably to even approach the performance of a good physician.
Code every transaction as Watson.
Much like how every transaction is now coded as Red Hat.
You could see this coming from day one. This was all about Ginni and others investing in thin air. Code every transaction as Watson. IBM knows nothing about Clinical decision making.
My guess is a venture fund, BUT it would have to be combined with one of the majors (Epic, or Baxter) Buy it, streamline it, grow it, then spin it. Certainly Microsoft or Amazon could benefit since they have committed very large sums of money to get into healthcare. Google would have been a player, but withdrew from healthcare several years ago. SAP has focused more on ERP, but Oracle has redefined what it means to be an ERP company with the purchase of Cerner
They were able to sell Notes so it appears anything is possible.
My bet ... either DXC or Veritas
SAP or AMAZON???? Thanks
It's interesting that they didn't even try to spin it off in an IPO, like they did with Kyndryl.
We spent years "Blue Washing" all their cr---y products (looking at you, Truven).
What a colossal failure.
Oracle just purchased Cerner (for 28 billion USD) - it'd make sense to augment that purchase with Watson