All participants were then asked to complete, under time pressure, a series of challenging problem-solving tasks, for which they needed to use creativity to generate the correct solutions.
Medical students will interact with Watson on challenging cases as part of a problem-based learning curriculum and in hypothetical clinical simulations.
Part of the problem, Wettemann says is that Microsoft found it challenging communicating the strengths of what was then a very new product to its partners, not to mention would-be customers.