Fresh from a super-sized “Jeopardy” victory where it looked suspiciously like President Obama’s ubiquitous teleprompter, IBM supercomputer Watson is about to become Dr. Watson, M.D. assistant. A joint venture will combine IBM’s question-answering, language-processing, and machine-learning capabilities with Nuance Healthcare’s speech-recognition and clinical-language understanding solutions to assist physicians in patient diagnosis and treatment.
I belive that Watson can help the curent medical community, but we have to take its help with caution. We all know that all computers can have glitches here and there. We also can't let computers make our doctors depend on them. We pay these doctor's way too much. So let's let them use there minds, instead of letting a computer do their work.
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Watson Graduates From Game Contestant to Physician Assistant
Posted by: Mike Martin February 18, 2011 07:00 AMFresh from a super-sized “Jeopardy” victory where it looked suspiciously like President Obama’s ubiquitous teleprompter, IBM supercomputer Watson is about to become Dr. Watson, M.D. assistant. A joint venture will combine IBM’s question-answering, language-processing, and machine-learning capabilities with Nuance Healthcare’s speech-recognition and clinical-language understanding solutions to assist physicians in patient diagnosis and treatment.
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