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Re:IBM's Watson recommended 'unsafe and incorrect' cancer tr... by framebit on Thursday July 26, 2018 @12:21PM (#17618650)
Not to mention that even if the AI technology here was decent (which it doesn't appear to be) it suffered greatly from a dearth of samples. Machine learning requires big data, and cancer treatment data is, in many instances, just not big enough. An AI solution would need millions of well-labeled, perfectly formatted cases to learn from; there may be thousands of those for a particular subtype of cancer, but there's not millions.
Re:IBM's Watson recommended 'unsafe and incorrect' cancer tr... by xyhopguy on Thursday July 26, 2018 @12:44PM (#17618815)
Not if you understand mechanism. In reality the breakthrough will be biologists applying ML/AI, not the other way around. Domain and mechanistic knowledge are king.