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Google and Amazon were presumably left out because the segment was in the context of the healthcare field. I don't think DeepMind's healthcare initiatives were very mature at that point.

I agree the language is problematic for non-technical viewers, but at the same time these are difficult concepts to explain to non-technical people, and explain the details of what it can't do is obviously much less compelling than focusing on what it can do.



> these are difficult concepts to explain to non-technical people

But that's not the problem, is it? It's not that IBM is trying to explain something difficult. Rather, if IBM was trying to be honest, the box that won Jeopardy would be called Watson, and the box they're now trying to sell everyone and their dog would be called "Whitney, Watson's big sister" or whatever. At the very least, "Watson the third".

By calling it the exact same name, you are trying to convince us it's the exact same thing just with more training. Which it's not.

Others mentioned poisoning the well; round here the expression is "pissing in the well", which I think fits much better.


I mean, plenty of software gets rewritten and sold under the same name as an old version - I'm not really sure I see the difference there.


IIRC the segment was followed by a self-driving car piece at Carnegie Mellon. If thats true then it was a clearly a general A.I. / M.L. piece. I've seen this episode twice and its also possible that a month ago it was re-aired alongside other content.




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