Perspectives on Watson: Healthcare

Medical records, texts, journals and research documents are all written in natural language -- a language that computers traditionally struggle to understand. The ability to deliver a single, precise answer from these documents could go a long way in transforming the healthcare industry. Watson, the IBM computing system designed to play Jeopardy!, could deliver such a solution.

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[trafficjamparades]

Doctor: "Alright, Watson, the patient is a 20 year old male exhibiting chest pains, nausea, dizziness, and body aches. He also suffers from paranoid delusions and hallucinations, but no treatment he's been given has eased his symptoms. What is a possible diagnosis?"

Watson: "Toronto."

[LemonJoose]

Watson might be useful as an assistant, but there are still a great many things a human doctor can do that Watson can't, such as interpret a patient's tone of voice or body language when the doctor asks them questions, or feel the patient with their hands (e.g. to check for swollen glands). Watson is another impressive narrow expert system, but it will be a very long time before a computer has the general intelligence needed to pass a Turig test.

[hyungsup2]

dunno why people are so obsessed...

Watson is a great invention!

No people don't really have to memorize all the things. We can concentrate our brain powers to much more creative things.

Before the industrial revolution, everybody made everything by hand.

Nowadays everyday products are mass produced by a machine.

Watson is a start of an information revolution where middle management would be replaced by watson. India's going to get f'd by Watson.....

[CanticlesInProgress]

If the limit of your DESIRED skill set is flipping burgers or answering phones AND you have nothing but pity for yourself and apathy toward others, please just leave the cities NOW and go plant potatoes in the forest. All your base are belong to moi.

-Have a nice day.

WATSON

[orginunknown]

when is ibm going to stop wasting time building gameshow playing robotic nurses and start building robots i can fuck. this is supposed to be the future. i want a sex robot NOW.

[stuffmadebetter]

self serving tripe.

[olafwijk]

These kind of machines and technologies are going to change the world, not only medicine. @trafficjamparades what you are talking about is a simple expert system. Watson is much more then that it can do a lot of things humans cant. Like, as stated in the video, memorize all possible medical researches, papers and diagnosis given to it. It can find relations that cant be found by humans because our brain IS limited while Watson is not. It could probably make a diagnoses of 'LemonJoose' reaction.

[bobbycatacutan]

if all those people at IBM are so smart why dont they get braces.... or at least dentures

[mrsuperstarfish]

YAY moving toward A UTOPIA... Or perhaps a happier society for the masses.....YAY!! EVERYBODY WINS!!!

[mechaflash916]

@LemonJoose Agreed. I think IBM's goal is to help with a diagnosis. Think of the vast knowledge that is required to diagnose a patient? Only doctors that have 30+ years under their belt know the majority of symptoms and what is causing them. Think of Watson as being just a database, able to take in input from the doctor and spit out the best, accurate choice based on the doctor's input. Ultimately, it is the doctor who will say "this is his diagnosis", because computers don't have instincts

[Ricogak]

watson is absolutely garbage, even if waston saves few lives so wat, thousand of human dies all over the world, millions are homeless, global warming, humans destroying the planet and cause animals to extinct, disturbing the ecosystem, deforestation, i guess fuck all tat and lets build watson to answer wats "supersize" faster then two retards lmao fuck ibm with its invention!!!

[Djarian2000]

Stupid. Another salesman.