ROBOT DIAGNOSIS

There is no substitute in medicine for the astute physician, assuming he or she is mentally and physically alert.  But for doctors who could use a help machine in diagnostics, IBM’s “Watson” has certain beyond-human features—like being able to read sixty million pages of natural language text is a second, and analyze symptoms almost as fast.  Presently, Watson is being tutored in medical learning at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Medical Center in New York, while clinicians are learning how to present questions for Watson’s responses.  Soon, as this piece says, “the robot will see you now.”  MORE

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