Every day about 180-210 pages of scientific research are published per each of the medical specialties (thoracic surgeon, lung oncologist, ER specialist, etc.) and human doctors have developed their own way to cut through the volume and read about 15-20 pages daily max. It is outright dangerous to rely on any AI/cognitive computing to make anything more than a polite suggestion. Even at reading rare X-rays Watson is shit compared to a human radiologist, but there is still value in distilling the body of knowledge that grows every day.

Cheers

rob

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Subject: [nexa] IBM Watson Reportedly Recommended Cancer Treatments That Were 'Unsafe and Incorrect'

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IBM Watson Reportedly Recommended Cancer Treatments That Were 'Unsafe and Incorrect'

Jennings Brown Yesterday 3:00pm

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Internal company documents from IBM show that medical experts working with the company’s Watson supercomputer found “multiple examples of unsafe and incorrect treatment recommendations” when using the software, according to a report from Stat News.

Stat reviewed documents that were included in two presentations given in June and July 2017 by IBM Watson’s former deputy health chief Andrew Norden. The documents were reportedly shared with IBM Watson Health management.

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