IBM dumping Watson Health is an opportunity to reevaluate artificial intelligence - MedCity News

Scientists marked the 1970s and 1990s as two distinct "AI winters," when sunny forecasts for artificial intelligence yielded to gloomy pessimism as projects failed to live up to the hype. IBM sold its AI-based Watson Health to a private equity firm earlier this year for what analysts describe as salvage value. Artificial intelligence has been with us longer than most people realize, reaching a mass audience with Rosey the Robot in the 1960s TV show "The Jetsons." This application of AI--the omniscient maid who keeps the household running--is the science fiction version. In a healthcare setting, artificial intelligence is limited.