IBM Watson: Making AI Wizards Do Eye Ball Rolls
August 1, 2017
Three quotes from Wired’s analysis of IBM Watson in “Watson Won Jeopardy, but Is It Smart Enough to Spin Big Clue’s AI into Green?” My answer is, “No.” I circled these items.
- Reference to the IBM Watson ad in which Bob Dylan allegedly says, “I have never known love.”
- Quote from a wizard at the Allen Institute for AI, “The only intelligent thing about Watson is their [sic] PR department.” The Beyond Search grammatical goose notes that the phrase might be crafted by a person in the Harrod’s Creek general store as “The only thing about Watson is its PR department.” But the quip is an inspirational one.
- The MD Anderson Center pulled out of its $62 million dollar deal for the IBM Watson cancer treating marvel.
None of this info is new, but I found the assessment on point with some of my thoughts.
However, the major flaw in Watson is the time, cost, and Ask Jeeves-type approach to making Watson smart. There are better methods, but good old IBM is apparently not interested. There’s nothing like a big company which allows spokespeople to sign their blog posts with their first name, not a full identifier. What? You don’t know Vijay? Neither do we.
Stephen E Arnold, August 1, 2017
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