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Watson Part 2: How IBM’s Big Bet Failed

Watson Part 2: How IBM’s Big Bet Failed

Update: 2023-05-02
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After its victory on Jeopardy, IBM made a billion-dollar bet on Watson: cancer. But it turned out that diagnosing patients isn’t the same as answering questions on a game show. Gary Marcus talks to journalists, doctors and computer scientists to find out how and why IBM’s experiment failed to live up to expectations, then looks at a new AI project that is showing promise at treating one of the world’s leading causes of hospital death. 

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Watson Part 2: How IBM’s Big Bet Failed

Watson Part 2: How IBM’s Big Bet Failed

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