A recent interview with a former IBM employee who worked in the company's life sciences group shows that the hype of artificial intelligence's impact on healthcare was felt internally too. Severak reported accounts in recent months, including the well-researched piece in Stat News, have documented how IBM Watson's foray in healthcare has been far less noteworthy than advertised. In fact, other companies in the AI space have not hesitated to call out the company for overstating its capabilities. At MedCity News' own cancer innovation conference – CONVERGE – earlier this summer in Philadelphia, Zach Weinberg, co-founder at Flatiron Health, who was a panelist along with an IBM Watson Health representative, took IBM to task as recorded by this tweet. "@IBMWatson not intellectually honest about what it is actually doing; instead using buzz wrds" @zachweinberg @flatironhealth #mcConverge Similarly, this former employee, who declined to speak on the record for fear of angering his powerful former employer, said that large marketing budgets have yielded a lot of advertising but no tangible off-the-shelf product.

A successful platform has several essential elements, according to Ruchir Puri, chief architect at IBM Watson. Puri, an IBM fellow, spoke with SearchCIO at this year's Platform Strategy Summit hosted by the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. In this video, he discusses the essential components of the IBM Watson platform, how he sees the platform evolving and what factors are contributing to its growth. Below are excerpts from the interview; click on the player to hear the interview in its entirety. How do you define platform and how do you see platforms changing in the next five years?

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The sixth season of the HBO program Game of Thrones begins April 24. And if you're a fan of the books on which the program is based, you're not quite sure what to expect. Author George R. R. Martin has not yet announced a release date for the sixth book in the series. Which means the television show is about to move ahead of the books, in terms of where the plot is heading. Fans of the book are preparing for spoiler alerts of epic proportions.

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In the era of Industry 4.0, the conventional barriers between sectors, businesses, and even academia will dissolve and in their place will a collaborative model will emerge. In this new environment, the advantage will go to those who know how to reinvent competitiveness and industrial imagination and find new growth fields–all while working together. As a renowned research institution and a leading tech company respectively, MIT and IBM are adopting an Industry 4.0 spirit, understanding that communication and mutual effort toward objectives and activities will be key success factors. IBM has over 1,000 researchers working to advance AI science, and as if that's not enough, the company is seeking further help at one of the world's most prestigious universities. In a press release, IBM announced its partnership with MIT in the field of AI by creating a joint research lab.

MUMBAI: American technology company IBM has said that more than 1,000 Indian companies, including startups, are using the Watson Internet of Things, its data analytics and cognitive artificial-intelligence (AI) platform, to draw insights from enormous amount of data collected through sensors placed on machines and devices. IBM counts Tata Steel, Reliance Group, Tech Mahindra, Maruti-Suzuki, Mahindra & Mahindra, KPIT, Arrow Electronics, Kone, Acculi Labs, Avanijal Agri Automation and Schneider Electric India among its customers and partners. It is also working with several Indian states and government bodies on water management, precision agriculture and asset optimisation projects. "India has exceeded our expectations in numbers. The speed to market in Indian environment is fantastic. We are working with big brands, medium-sized companies and a phenomenal number of startups, particularly in agriculture and healthcare," said Harriet Green, general manager, Watson Internet of Things, customer engagement and education at IBM.

Wouldn't it be great if an Android app could see and understand its surroundings? Can you imagine how much better its user interface could be if it could look at its users and instantly know their ages, genders, and emotions? Well, such an app might seem futuristic, but it's totally doable today. With the IBM Watson Visual Recognition service, creating mobile apps that can accurately detect and analyze objects in images is easier than ever. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to use it to create a smart Android app that can guess a person's age and gender and identify prominent objects in a photograph.

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