“What’s the best treatment for Jane’s stage-three breast cancer?” the doctor asks. He isn’t asking a colleague or a medical student, he’s talking to a computer. A supercomputer. A robot of sorts.
This is about to become real life at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. The hospital has partnered with IBM to use itsWatson supercomputer.
The computer, which is best-known for the way it crushed its human competition on “Jeopardy,” can interpret spoken queries and then uses statistical analysis to deliver “evidence-based statistically-ranked responses,” says IBM. Watson can read 200 million pages of data in three seconds.
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