> This article and the comments in this thread are right up that alley. I mean, can you imagine say 1 or 2 years ago saying we'd have a readily accessible system that you could feed it the symptoms a patient is experiencing (in any language!) and out would split a well-described explanation of the diagnosis (in any language!) around half the time?

we've had this for years (bar the "any language")

they're traditional expert systems with the same flowchart a GP (family doctor) would use to ask questions

and they do a lot better than 50%