Layoffs at Watson Health Reveal IBM’s Problem with AI
"Offering managers didn’t have technical backgrounds and sometimes came up with ideas for new products that were simply impossible."<p>Sounds like they drank their own kool-aid, e.g., "Products That Enhance and Amplify Human Expertise," rather than understand the actual limitations and possibilities of ML. And it seems to me that they're still doing it with this nonsense about a human-level "AI" debating stack.<p>The oversell seems a real shame in light of how much good can be done with EMR and machine learning / NLP.