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by UnhelpfulYoda 2889 days ago
Not really... I'm mean it's great for IBM financially, but not all that great for Hospitals and Medical Centers duped into this scam:

"University of Texas says the project cost MD Anderson more than $62 million"

source: MD Anderson Benches IBM Watson In Setback For Artificial Intelligence In Medicine https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2017/02/19/md-and...

As for your analogy, you got still tragically flawed predictive text technology for free. Nobody bought iPhones for their crappy predictive text capabilities. Imagine the horror if you actually had to pay for predictive text. As it is, it's a nice to have freebie that came along with your phone, which works.... sometimes.