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A comment on Ask HN: Is anybody doing something productive with IBM Watson or is it just BS?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Is anybody doing something productive with IBM Wa... by tormeh on Thursday April 28, 2016 @03:17PM (#11591264)
The PR speak a while ago was that it would sift through research papers and books looking for relevant answers to a query - a much smarter Google Scholar. Nobody can keep track of all the cancer research, apparently, so machine analysis makes sense, IBM says.
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Re:Ask HN: Is anybody doing something productive with IBM Wa... by ChristianBundy on Thursday April 28, 2016 @03:18PM (#11591271)
Right, but is that what it's doing? It sounds like PR is all that exists.
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Re:Ask HN: Is anybody doing something productive with IBM Wa... by fabiobruna on Thursday April 28, 2016 @04:25PM (#11591658)
I've worked with some people from IBM, doing some cancer analyses with Watson. I think the goal was to compare US/EU results(cancer get different treatments in different regions I guess). We "fed" Watson with actual patient data / diagnostics(getting/selection data was my job) and reviewed the resulting suggested treatment plans. Watson would suggest different plans, with results stats, links to pubmed, datasets etc. I'm no medic, but it looked nice. I wouldn't mind a "second opinion" like that.
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