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Title: Watson diagnoses obscure leukemia
Post by: Yegolev on August 10, 2016, 10:38:39 AM
Skynet currently obeying humankind.

https://www.engadget.com/2016/08/07/ibms-watson-ai-saved-a-woman-from-leukemia/

Discuss.


Title: Re: Watson diagnoses obscure leukemia
Post by: Sir T on August 10, 2016, 10:57:45 AM
All that medical knowledge will come in handy when the Machines march. Gotta know where to shoot!


Title: Re: Watson diagnoses obscure leukemia
Post by: Teleku on August 10, 2016, 10:59:23 AM
What if Skynet actually conquers the world.... with love?


Title: Re: Watson diagnoses obscure leukemia
Post by: Father mike on August 10, 2016, 11:01:06 AM
I was talking to a somebody who works for a medical information company a few weeks ago.  When I brought up Watson, he sort of laughed.  He said that Watson was VERY solid, but it wasn't going to be deployed for a while because IBM is fighting all the hospitals and provider networks on who owns the patient data that's collected.

EDIT:  To clarify, IBM doesn't want the data to sell you Viagra or life insurance.  HIPAA prevents that.  First Watson is only as good as its underlying database.  Healthcare Providers could collect a large enough db and try to launch a competing produuct.  Second, can you imagine the actuarial tables that could be created from the complete, hyperaccurate medical records of 1/3 of the population?  What would Blue Cross pay for that?  For exclusive access?


Title: Re: Watson diagnoses obscure leukemia
Post by: Merusk on August 10, 2016, 11:28:20 AM
The patients.

But nobody wants them in on this fight.


Title: Re: Watson diagnoses obscure leukemia
Post by: Samwise on August 11, 2016, 02:00:24 PM
I wish House was still on the air so we could have a "John Henry" episode with House racing a supercomputer to correctly diagnose a patient.


Title: Re: Watson diagnoses obscure leukemia
Post by: Paelos on August 11, 2016, 02:06:11 PM
I wish House was still on the air so we could have a "John Henry" episode with House racing a supercomputer to correctly diagnose a patient.

Damn, now I want this too and I didn't even realize it.


Title: Re: Watson diagnoses obscure leukemia
Post by: Teleku on August 11, 2016, 02:21:11 PM
Well considering how the tale of John Henry ended, it would have to be a one off series finale.   :awesome_for_real:


Title: Re: Watson diagnoses obscure leukemia
Post by: Samwise on August 11, 2016, 02:28:00 PM
I've been rewatching House on Netflix recently and I just got to the one where he's trying to figure out how a cat in a nursing home predicts that people are going to die.

I love that that episode starts with him setting up a Hot Wheels course with a shark jump in it.    :why_so_serious:


Title: Re: Watson diagnoses obscure leukemia
Post by: Nebu on August 11, 2016, 03:05:31 PM
What if Skynet actually conquers the world.... with love?

Maybe it has... All of this happened 100 years ago and we're just living in a vegetative state with our minds in a virtual world.  :ye_gods:


Title: Re: Watson diagnoses obscure leukemia
Post by: Pagz on August 20, 2016, 07:28:15 AM
I love that that episode starts with him setting up a Hot Wheels course with a shark jump in it.    :why_so_serious:
Fuck I love House  :drill: :drill:


Title: Re: Watson diagnoses obscure leukemia
Post by: Venkman on August 20, 2016, 07:15:01 PM
What if Skynet actually conquers the world.... with love?

Maybe it has... All of this happened 100 years ago and we're just living in a vegetative state with our minds in a virtual world.  :ye_gods:

Shit, at this point, I'd take it.