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IBM Watson the so-called genius supercomputer that can supposedly assist doctors in treatments of their patients, too hyped or a groundbreaking technology? The following project analysis of IBM Watson, more specifically Watson for heath, has been described using materials from both IBM documents itself and reviews by third parties. Emphasis on both early and recent failures and inaccuracies have been mentioned, and solutions with regard to the context of the mentioned issues have been proposed. Going further, facts and even hypothetical situations will be discussed in regard to the above proposed question, what is IBM Watson? How exactly does it work? Is it really as good as IBM claims it to be? Is it really going to help completely revolutionize the AI world? Finally comes the comparative analysis of IBM Watson’s competitors to take a look at how they differ and which one is better. With technology there is always room for growth and enhancement. Toward the end will Watson prove itself to be worth all the public and mainstream media attraction? Or will it turn out to be another overhyped AI technology?
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Petiwala, F.F., Shukla, V.K., Vyas, S. (2021). IBM Watson: Redefining Artificial Intelligence Through Cognitive Computing. In: Prateek, M., Singh, T.P., Choudhury, T., Pandey, H.M., Gia Nhu, N. (eds) Proceedings of International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Data Science Applications. Algorithms for Intelligent Systems. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4087-9_15
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