Re:IBM's Watson For Business: The $1 Billion Siri Slayer
by DanBC on Thursday January 09, 2014 @02:13PM
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Is the idea that i have an appointment, and the doctor / AI come to a diagnosis?
Or that an AI runs through a doctor surgery's collection of patient medical records and highlights patients that probably would benefit from an intervention?
A few issues: There is a lot of information available to the doctor in a typical diagnostic setting that is not currently codified in machine-readable form, and asking the doctor to do custom data entry per patient is not likely to improve uptake. Ideally the systems should integrate with other patient-information-management systems, and such patient-information systems might need to be augmented with new or differently coded data collection. Perhaps equally or more importantly, if the AI system is going to be a component of the diagnosis rather than handed over full trust to make the diagnosis, it should ideally produce "white-box" diagnoses with justification for its reasoning and human-readable explanation of what it thinks the situation is, not just black-box predictions.