Re Exposé of IBM Watson

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: "Jordan B. Pollack" <pollack () brandeis edu>
> Date: September 11, 2017 at 8:17:43 AM EDT
> To: "dave () farber net" <dave () farber net>
> Subject: RE: [IP] Exposé of IBM Watson
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> Watson is just the first snow flurries of the coming AI winter.
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> 
> Date: 9/11/17 03:24 (GMT-05:00) 
> To: ip <ip () listbox com> 
> Subject: [IP] Exposé of IBM Watson 
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> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Andy Oram <andyo () oreilly com>
> Date: Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 8:55 PM
> Subject: Exposé of IBM Watson
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
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> How disappointing: This much-hyped medical AI is more like 1980s expert systems, not good at diagnosing cancer. 
> Rather than exploring data through something like a neural network, IBM just has doctors input their diagnoses, and 
> the system is supposed to develop independent thought from them. As the article points out, the subjective training 
> method creates a risk of bias.
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> http://bit.ly/2jgc3Ms
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