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		annoyingdisb on Aug 8, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IBM Adds Medical Images to Watson, Buying Merge He... 70s called. Expert systems are out of fashion. Anyway, if you ever used Watson on their Blue-thing you know how horrible the experience can be. Just pay someone to make some documentation or something and an API..

j-pb on Aug 8, 2015 | [–]

Ah yes, let's not do something we can do now, because 40 years ago it sucked due to technical limitations.

tobylane on Aug 8, 2015 | [–]

Are you saying it's limited by the lack of documentation that you need, or by the technology, or implementation?

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