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Re:IBM Watson correctly diagnoses a form of leukemia by airplane on Saturday August 06, 2016 @08:24PM (#12240498)
Somewhat interesting and related is that software that performs medical diagnoses better than doctors has existed since the 1970s (Mycin, an expert system). It seems like nowadays that this kind of solution can possibly be provided at scale at a consumer level (can process new medical knowledge by itself, be installed on commodity hardware), not an expert myself though so I don't know if totally true. What exciting times though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycin

"it proposed an acceptable therapy in about 69% of cases, which was better than the performance of infectious disease experts who were judged using the same criteria."

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