Skip to content

Comment on Garry Kasparov on IBM's Watson

Comments

Kasparov is spot on in that Watson's DeepQA has yet to prove itself in a meaningful way. If it proves itself as an effective medical advisor, that will be far more impressive than the Jeopardy win (as impressive as that was in itself).

I think everyone was disappointed in the applicability of the Deep Blue accomplishment in other fields. Were any of the special purpose ASICs used to defeat Kasparov used in any other application? As far as I know a significant part of the Deep Blue development team left IBM relatively soon after the accomplishment.

AboutSource Built by g1lg1l

Hackerly is an independent reader for Hacker News, built on the public HN API. Not affiliated with Y Combinator.