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Machine learning the hard way: IBM Watson's fatal misdiagnosis

Binraider Silver badge

I saw a demo of Watson a couple years ago at an IBM sales pitch. The idea was that Watson had been fed a guidebook about the building, and you could ask simple questions like when was the building built? Who lived there?

Of course even this simple demo failed utterly miserably. The technology does do something I’m sure, but dammed if I saw it that day.

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