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I don't understand your point here.

Google is not a competitor to IBM and so there is no "choice" to be made between the two. Sure Google has open sourced some great technologies (as have many others) but they are raw, low-level tools for Data Scientists to use. They aren't OOTB products ordinary people can use.

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Google absolutely competes with IBM in the cloud hosting space and MLaaS space with offerings like ML Engine.

I thought one of Watson's main projected uses was healthcare. Isn't Google's stake in healthcare via DeepMind actually make them competitors in that sense? Unless I'm missing something here, I have not researched Watson a lot.

They're competitors in the sense that neither are worth anything to the average medical Doctor at this point.

I don't mean this as a disparagement, merely as a dispassionate observation. Doctors need alerts about contra-indications of drugs they and their patients' other doctors have prescribed more than they need AI-derived diagnoses, for example.

I regret having only one upvote to give you. The state of information flow in today's clinical settings is depressingly bad, especially when you see what computers can do today. The focus on trendy techs we are experiencing in hospitals really reflects how backwards people have their priorities.

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