It might not know U.S. cities, but can Watson improve healthcare?
IBM’s supercomputer Watson conquered its human competition, scoring $77,147 during the 3-day Jeopardy! challenge that ended Wednesday.
(It even won the $1 million grand prize after an incorrect ‘U.S. Cities’ final Jeopardy response of “What is Toronto?????”)
Now what? Well, there’re a lot of data out there, and Watson’s Jeopardy-winning skillz could be perfectly tasked.
During round 2, Watson project leader David Ferrucci talked a little about future applications for health. Indeed, in the long list of IBM research projects, Advanced Healthcare Informatics is notably bulleted: “Work on extracting important HealthCare entities (e.g., drugs, diseases, procedures) from Clinical documents (e.g., textual progress notes).”
That is, information sifting and retrieval. Some ways to apply Watson’s tools in medicine:
And Watson, adds IBM’s Katharine Frase, continues to learn and refine its abilities.
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