What Next TBD: The Downfall of One of the World's Biggest Brains

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🗓️ 28 January 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Ten years ago, IBM made a gamble. Through a monumental advertising and PR campaign, it promised that its AI technology–Watson–would transform the health care industry as we know it. A decade and billions of dollars later, Watson Health is being sold for parts. What went wrong with IBM’s “moonshot?” And what does Watson’s failure tell us about the promise of AI for health care? Guest: Casey Ross, national technology correspondent for STAT Host: Lizzie O’Leary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were liars.
0:07.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:09.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers. We were liars. New series, watch now, only on
0:28.9	Prime Video.
0:33.7	Now the last clue. Even a broken one of these on your wall is right twice a day. Watson,
0:40.5	what is? Clock. Clock is correct. And with that, you move up to 23,000. If you know Watson at all,
0:46.8	it might be from this. Jeopardy in 2011, when Watson, IBM's computer system, played against
0:53.9	champions Ken Jennings and Bradrutter and won.
0:57.7	Well, we've just seen history made here on KXN this afternoon. Watson, the supercomputer, wiping the floor with the two greatest human champions ever to play Jeopardy.
1:08.0	Watson's time on Jeopardy was fun viewing, but it was also a very savvy public debut of a product that IBM wanted to sell.
1:17.0	Watson Health.
1:18.4	Just on the back of that performance and that feat, it gained a ton of interest in attraction from health care systems and others who are looking
1:30.1	to use that technology.
1:32.3	That's Casey Ross, technology correspondent for Statt News, who has been covering Watson
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