Reply to post: @Tom Mariner Re: Failure to Commercialize

Watson can't cure cancer ... or all the stuff that breaks IT projects

Ian Michael Gumby

@Tom Mariner Re: Failure to Commercialize

Its not a failure to 'Commercialize' but to monetize. (They are actually two different things)

But MD Anderson does do real research and is one of the top research hospitals for Cancer Treatment.

The problem is that everyone and their brother is trying to cash in on using 'big data' to help fight cancer and in most cases the hype is so far over the top, you will have a hard time talking people down to reality. Everyone is giving money to Cancer research and here's a way to cash in.

The truth is that cancer research is an iterative process and where 'big data' and AI can help is to prune the tree and reduce both the time it takes per iteration and the number of iterations until they find something.

IBM did this in terms of marketing. They used this as a way to suggest how important Watson was. (Its more than just 'big data' but also some analytics packages. ) They used this to keep morphing and selling IBM. The I in IBM doesn't stand for 'innovative' while the M stands for 'marketing'. I be marketing... ;-)

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