Re:IBM's Watson recommended 'unsafe and incorrect' cancer tr...
by framebit on Thursday July 26, 2018 @12:21PM
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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.
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