Posted on 02/09/2013 5:13:56 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
And what if Watson decides you’re just not worth the effort? Or is a death panel made up of ones and zeros somehow more noble?
The only problem is that all diagnoses are provided in the form of a question.
IBM is always claiming to be “building a smarter planet”. Then how come every time I look the planet seems to be getting dumber by the hour?
But my real point is that IBM is great at marketing their supposed breakthroughs - I personally take much (most) of what they say with a rather large grain of salt. Sure you can do a demo that wow’s the punters but somehow most of these demos never really make it all the way to daily life.
This one will, although most people will not interact with it directly. Eventually, maybe in ten years, you will not know whether the person on the phone is a Watson like entity or a human.
Great...Skynet started with Watson.
Probably because our view of the world is filtered through the lightweight brains of journalists.
I would wish that IBM made Lotus Notes simpler to configure and consistent with installation.
It is a horrible email client in every respect. I would trade for Outlook and its known problems. At least there is plenty of support out there. Notes advanced problems - ha. One has almost to be a software engineer to do any real fixing if it goes stupid.
House - without the attitude.
ironic.
a machine will determine the best care strategy for you.
then a human death panel will deny it.
The Obamacare machine
By way of comparison, google's slogan is "Don't be evil", yet every time I look at them...
Manufacturing jobs were replaced at a speed that was barely acceptable, thus initially giving a cover for outsourcing. This time around, it is getting both the people that moved up “as they were supposed to” from manufacturing as well as people that have grown up with advanced technology jobs. In addition, the world is being used as leverage against those in the US - to where it makes no sense for many to study for professions too easily sent elsewhere.
If you want to pin it on government, you can look at the market distortions that guest worker programs provide as well as the lack of enforcement of existing immigration laws.
Garbage in, garbage out. First rule of computing.
Lotus Notes, oh man, I feel for ya!
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Very cool indeed!
Just having a physician check to see what this thing says could be beneficial. Every dr can’t know the latest research based on real data.
Half the physicians are below average after all, and this might help them make better decisions. A patient will benefit. It’s good to improve the odds when YOU go in for treatment.
I think you are mistaken in this belief. The system has already demonstrated its basic ability by winning at Jeopardy. That wasn’t a parlor trick. This “demo” was run in real time without foreknowledge of the questions.
What it is doing is easy enough to comprehend. It is doing vast searches of all relevant data - and it has a grading system that helps it pick the best answers. Not magic - good engineering!
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