AJ Shankar: IBM Watson is mostly regression, not an all-solving brain
AJ Shankar · a16z Podcast | The Product Edge in Machine Learning Startups · Jan 2, 2019 · at 4:04
AJ Shankar, CEO of Everlaw, points to IBM Watson as an example of a valuable AI product built primarily on standard statistical regression rather than neural networks.
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“What IBM calls Watson, which is not some brain that just solves every problem, but a whole agglomeration of different techniques is largely regression, which is an incredibly powerful technique.”
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