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Yeah. People are using it. -- For starters, Watson has taken residence at three of the top cancers hospitals in the US -- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Cente

by ohhoe 10y ago

Yeah. People are using it. -- For starters, Watson has taken residence at three of the top cancers hospitals in the US -- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, and the Mayo Clinic -- where it helps with cancer research and patient care. -- In Australia, the company ANZ Global Wealth is focused on the latter. The company uses the Watson Engagement Advisor Tool, an NLP SaaS offering, to observe and field customer questions. Similarly, DBS bank in Singapore uses Watson to ensure the proper advice and experience for customers of its wealth management business. etc etc. -- http://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-watson-what-are-companies-using-it-for/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-watson-what-are-companies-u...

johansch 10y ago
You are on the Watson team, right?
- ohhoe 10y ago
  sure am
ryptophan 10y ago
How much of Watson's NLP success can be attributed to IBM acquiring AlchemyAPI (http://www.alchemyapi.com/ http://www.alchemyapi.com/)?
- ohhoe 10y ago
  I honestly can't answer this, I've been here less than a year and am just a front end person. My team is v small.
maxxxxx 10y ago
"helps with cancer research and patient care." What does that mean? I only hear good sounding phrases but nobody ever gives me any detail.
- ohhoe 10y ago
  What kind of details? Like exactly what it's doing?
  - maxxxxx 10y ago
    Yes, what does it do?
    - hyperbovine 10y ago
      Like, what are the things which it does? :-) I 100% know where you are coming from in this post. All I ever see are ads oriented at PHB types, shown in PHB-type venues (airport corridors, tennis tournaments).
    - ohhoe 10y ago
      http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/services-catalog.html http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercl... the 'learn more' part for each service should tell you more about what each service does. hope this helps. it would take me a long time and a lot of copying and pasting to relay all the same stuff.
  - ohhoe 10y ago
    In terms of some of the cancer stuff, this can explain it way better than I can. "But it can take weeks to identify drugs targeting cancer-causing mutations. Watson can do it in minutes and has in its database the findings of scientific papers and clinical trials on particular cancers and potential therapies." http://www.businessinsider.com/r-ibms-watson-to-guide-cancer-therapies-at-14-centers-2015-5 http://www.businessinsider.com/r-ibms-watson-to-guide-cancer...
    - i000 10y ago
      As someone who works at the bioinformatics end of a clinical cancer sequencing operation, and someone familiar with the MSKCC operation (they are doing good work with their IMPACT assay) I have to say that the landscape of matching patients with drugs is so sparse (few drugs, few FDA-approved links, not enough trials) that no Watson is necessary, just basic string matching and a comprehensive high-quality up-to-date database (which does not exist and currently there are 10+ companies working on it)
et2o 10y ago
"helps with cancer research" Sure... Show us a single publication.
- ohhoe 10y ago
  Okay, here's two, then I gotta get off this thread and get back to work: http://www.businessinsider.com/r-ibms-watson-to-guide-cancer-therapies-at-14-centers-2015-5 http://www.businessinsider.com/r-ibms-watson-to-guide-cancer... https://www.mskcc.org/about/innovative-collaborations/watson-oncology https://www.mskcc.org/about/innovative-collaborations/watson...
  - et2o 10y ago
    Neither of these are a peer-reviewed publication. As a bioinformatician, I'm really struggling to see what is new here. It seems like it's mostly a marketing thing.
  - toast_coder 10y ago
    You seem to be working against your own argument. 1) Business Insider is at best, simply not research journal, nor is it specifying results. 2) The medical center publication first statement says "A team of physicians and analysts at Memorial Sloan Kettering has been “training” IBM Watson for more than a year..." Seems like like something productive would be going the other way....
    - ohhoe 10y ago
      No... it wouldn't be going the other way. You have to train with corpuses of data.
      - ChristianBundy 10y ago
        Right, but training isn't productive unless it's means to an end. Has there been a productive end, and can you share it with us?

by ohhoe 10y ago

johansch 10y ago

You are on the Watson team, right?

ohhoe 10y ago
sure am

ryptophan 10y ago

How much of Watson's NLP success can be attributed to IBM acquiring AlchemyAPI (http://www.alchemyapi.com/ http://www.alchemyapi.com/)?

ohhoe 10y ago
I honestly can't answer this, I've been here less than a year and am just a front end person. My team is v small.

maxxxxx 10y ago

"helps with cancer research and patient care." What does that mean? I only hear good sounding phrases but nobody ever gives me any detail.

ohhoe 10y ago
What kind of details? Like exactly what it's doing?
- maxxxxx 10y ago
  Yes, what does it do?
  - hyperbovine 10y ago
    Like, what are the things which it does? :-) I 100% know where you are coming from in this post. All I ever see are ads oriented at PHB types, shown in PHB-type venues (airport corridors, tennis tournaments).
  - ohhoe 10y ago
    http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/services-catalog.html http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercl... the 'learn more' part for each service should tell you more about what each service does. hope this helps. it would take me a long time and a lot of copying and pasting to relay all the same stuff.
- ohhoe 10y ago
  In terms of some of the cancer stuff, this can explain it way better than I can. "But it can take weeks to identify drugs targeting cancer-causing mutations. Watson can do it in minutes and has in its database the findings of scientific papers and clinical trials on particular cancers and potential therapies." http://www.businessinsider.com/r-ibms-watson-to-guide-cancer-therapies-at-14-centers-2015-5 http://www.businessinsider.com/r-ibms-watson-to-guide-cancer...
  - i000 10y ago
    As someone who works at the bioinformatics end of a clinical cancer sequencing operation, and someone familiar with the MSKCC operation (they are doing good work with their IMPACT assay) I have to say that the landscape of matching patients with drugs is so sparse (few drugs, few FDA-approved links, not enough trials) that no Watson is necessary, just basic string matching and a comprehensive high-quality up-to-date database (which does not exist and currently there are 10+ companies working on it)

et2o 10y ago

"helps with cancer research" Sure... Show us a single publication.

ohhoe 10y ago
Okay, here's two, then I gotta get off this thread and get back to work: http://www.businessinsider.com/r-ibms-watson-to-guide-cancer-therapies-at-14-centers-2015-5 http://www.businessinsider.com/r-ibms-watson-to-guide-cancer... https://www.mskcc.org/about/innovative-collaborations/watson-oncology https://www.mskcc.org/about/innovative-collaborations/watson...
- et2o 10y ago
  Neither of these are a peer-reviewed publication. As a bioinformatician, I'm really struggling to see what is new here. It seems like it's mostly a marketing thing.
- toast_coder 10y ago
  You seem to be working against your own argument. 1) Business Insider is at best, simply not research journal, nor is it specifying results. 2) The medical center publication first statement says "A team of physicians and analysts at Memorial Sloan Kettering has been “training” IBM Watson for more than a year..." Seems like like something productive would be going the other way....
  - ohhoe 10y ago
    No... it wouldn't be going the other way. You have to train with corpuses of data.
    - ChristianBundy 10y ago
      Right, but training isn't productive unless it's means to an end. Has there been a productive end, and can you share it with us?