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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.

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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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