Dear Patient, the Database Will See You Now

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There's a general consensus being able to analyze massive amounts of data has the potential to help launch an AI revolution across a number of industries, but a lot of questions about when and where those revolutions will occur. In a new profile of Watson by the New York Times, there's a hint of what that revolution might look like in the field of medicine.

Already, Watson was roughly on par with human experts with its recommendations for how to proceed across a series of cancer diagnoses. But then it was able go further:

Those kinds of results help explain the billions IBM has spent on developing Watson as well as acquiring companies with health data. It also could be a good road map of how in the near future, AI will increasingly augment professionals in a number of fields, helping bring insights to bear that would otherwise be missed.

Read the New York Times story in full here.

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