Watson Goes To Medical School

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 31, 2012 @11:20AM from the computer-learning dept.

First time accepted submitter Kwyj1b0 writes "I.B.M's Watson is headed to the Cleavland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University for training. Clinicians and students will answer and correct Watson's questions, in an attempt to crowdsource its education. From the article: '“Hopefully, we can contribute to the training of this technology,” said Dr. James K. Stoller, chairman of the Education Institute at Cleveland Clinic. The goal, he added, was for Watson to become a “very smart assistant.” Part of Watson’s training will be to feed it test questions from the United States Medical Licensing Exam, which every human student must pass to become a practicing physician. The benefit for Watson should be to have a difficult but measurable set of questions on which to measure the progress of its machine-learning technology.'"

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Re:What other urgent jobs do editors have? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-31 11:28 · Score: 2, Funny

oops, looks like I couldn't bother verb there. I should get a /. editor job too.
Repurpsose for Criminology by p0p0 · 2012-10-31 11:41 · Score: 5, Funny

Design another Watson designed as a database for crimes which could analyse crime scenes, point out potential minute details and give data on similar crimes. Then call it... Holmes.
I'd like that.
Re:good and bad by Dr Schteve by Goraek · 2012-10-31 13:04 · Score: 3, Funny

It's always Lupus..