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🗓️ 28 January 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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0:00.0 | Now the last clue. |
0:05.9 | Even a broken one of these on your wall is right twice a day. |
0:09.9 | Watson, what is clock, clock is correct and with that you move up to twenty-four thousand. |
0:15.7 | If you know Watson at all, it might be from this. |
0:18.9 | Jeopardy in 2011, when Watson, IBM's computer system, played against champions Ken Jennings |
0:25.6 | and Bradrotter and won. |
0:27.8 | Well, we just seen history made here on KXC in this afternoon. |
0:31.0 | Watson, the supercomputer, wiping the floor with the two greatest human champions ever to play |
0:37.2 | Jeopardy. Watson Watson's time on Jeopardy was fun viewing, but it was also a very savvy |
0:43.2 | public debut of a product that IBM wanted to sell. |
0:47.2 | Watson, health, just on the back of that performance and that feet, it gained a ton of interest |
0:55.7 | in attraction from healthcare systems and others who are looking to use that technology. |
1:02.6 | That's Casey Ross, technology correspondent for STAT News, who has been covering Watson |
1:06.8 | health for years. |
1:08.4 | It was supposed to really change healthcare in so many different ways, delivering insights |
1:15.7 | to hospitals about their operations, to oncologists about the cancer care of a patient in front |
1:21.5 | of them to pharmaceutical companies about the development of drugs, how to match patients |
1:28.3 | with clinical trials. |
1:30.6 | There were just so many different domains. |
1:34.5 | It sounded revolutionary, but as Casey's reporting shows, it never really worked. |
1:39.7 | And last week, Watson Health was essentially sold for parts. |
1:43.7 | A private equity firm, Francisco Partners, bought some of Watson's data and analytics |
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