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Seems pretty obvious that anything that would do that is not human-like intelligence, and probably the search results should be taken with a handful of salt even if they stuck some impressive natural language generation after it.
My mom worked for a GP for about 20 years, and it seemed to me that most of what made that guy a doctor was bedside manner + being able to remember a lot of things. But GPs often make astounding amounts of money while leaning heavily on their staff to actually handle patients and keep the business running. I thought it could help drugs get a little cheaper too, because there wouldn't be any point in the pharma companies sending out salespeople to do lunch seminars to convince the GPs to prescribe this or that drug (this still happens).
Maybe this will still happen, but it doesn't seem imminent anymore.
"billed as a revolution in medicine" by whom? IBM's marketing department? Anything "Watson" (together with 95% of that company - optimistically) is marred too deep in bureaucracy and yes men to do anything productive and innovative.
What was the deal with this? Was it that the internal management team just mis-managed the product they had?
https://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-watson-office-tour-2016-...
What was the deal with this? Was it that the internal management team just mis-managed the product they had?
I really expected that we'd see a change in my lifetime, that GPs in particular would be replaced by a lower-cost Watson descendant, with there being some other role for patient interaction, wet work, and data entry (perhaps just nurses). My mom worked for a GP for about 20 years, and it seemed to me that most of what made that guy a doctor was bedside manner + being able to remember a lot of things. But GPs often ma…