Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Aug 2018
IBM bet billions that Watson could improve cancer treatment. It hasn’t worked.
11 August 2018 - Big Blue’s Watson artificial intelligence product sometimes didn’t say more than doctors already knew.
Can Watson cure cancer?
That’s what International Business Machines Corporation asked soon after its artificial-intelligence system beat humans at the quiz show “Jeopardy!” in 2011. Watson could read documents quickly and find patterns in data. Could it match patient information with the latest in medical studies to deliver personalised treatment recommendations?
