IBM's Watson Gets Its First Piece Of Business In Healthcare
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Re: IBM's Watson Gets Its First Piece Of Business In Healthcare
#2People don't seem to realize how huge this is. This venture could easily turn out to be the most profitable in IBM's history, and one of the most important inventions in health care.
Re: IBM's Watson Gets Its First Piece Of Business In Healthcare
#3People don't seem to realize how huge this is. This venture could easily turn out to be the most profitable in IBM's history, and one of the most important inventions in health care.
I agree - this seems like a turning point in health care. granted, in five years most people will still get their medical advice from a person - but I wonder for how much longer after that.
Re: IBM's Watson Gets Its First Piece Of Business In Healthcare
#4Why I have the eerie feeling that this sort of thing might be very dangerous?
I mean, what happen if too much people start to rely only on this, and then it is used to mislead (WWII battle of beams style) or what happen if people start to become dependant on it, and you have a power failure?
For example a massive solar storm might happen in our lifetime, the last time it happened (about 150 years ago) it made telegraph lines catch on fire, and people could read newspaper at night using the aurora in the middle of the caribbean. If that happen again, it is very likely that we will have some time of global power and communication loss. Of course, that will mean some chaos. How hospitals that rely too much on technology will treat take care of the emergency?
Re: IBM's Watson Gets Its First Piece Of Business In Healthcare
#5People don't seem to realize how huge this is. This venture could easily turn out to be the most profitable in IBM's history, and one of the most important inventions in health care.
Preach on. I'm baffled by how techies can be so underwhelmed by what IBM is doing.
Re: IBM's Watson Gets Its First Piece Of Business In Healthcare
#6Why I have the eerie feeling that this sort of thing might be very dangerous? I mean, what happen if too much people start to rely only on this, and then it is used to mislead (WWII battle of beams style) or what happen if people start to become dependant on it, and you have a power failure? For example a massive solar storm might happen in our lifetime, the last time it happened (about 150 years ago) it made telegra…
Blindly trusting your doctor is dangerous, yet most people do.
Re: IBM's Watson Gets Its First Piece Of Business In Healthcare
#7I can imagine, how this will look like, so I illustrated it for your convenience. :)
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Re: IBM's Watson Gets Its First Piece Of Business In Healthcare
#8This is the single most impressive use of artificial intelligence today. Let's hope we can improve successfully improve the lives of everyone with this technology.
Re: IBM's Watson Gets Its First Piece Of Business In Healthcare
#9Why I have the eerie feeling that this sort of thing might be very dangerous? I mean, what happen if too much people start to rely only on this, and then it is used to mislead (WWII battle of beams style) or what happen if people start to become dependant on it, and you have a power failure? For example a massive solar storm might happen in our lifetime, the last time it happened (about 150 years ago) it made telegra…
Blindly trusting your doctor is dangerous, yet most people do.
Well...
I don't.
And then other people get mad at me for that, I am kinda tired that every time I argue with a doctor (or that people find out that I did that), there are a argument about how I am not a student of medicine or a doctor and should not argue with them.
So there is kind a social pressure toward that.
But I still don't trust them anyway (because I have my symptoms, there are good research on the subject, and every time a doctor did what I nagged him to do, it worked, but they are too conservative to believe in the research until whatever council they obey tell them to do so, and some even that way still refuse to change)
Re: IBM's Watson Gets Its First Piece Of Business In Healthcare
#10Why I have the eerie feeling that this sort of thing might be very dangerous? I mean, what happen if too much people start to rely only on this, and then it is used to mislead (WWII battle of beams style) or what happen if people start to become dependant on it, and you have a power failure? For example a massive solar storm might happen in our lifetime, the last time it happened (about 150 years ago) it made telegra…
Blindly trusting your doctor is dangerous, yet most people do.
I suppose very few doctors have way less than 90% accuracy and, on top of that, Watson is not sensitive to external factors. This is a fantastic tool and may end up changing the way we interface with the health care system.