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Well, to play devil's advocate, if all the tickets are free, and the attending gets to ignore all the ones that don't win, that could be useful. FWIW, here's L
by apathy 10y ago
Well, to play devil's advocate, if all the tickets are free, and the attending gets to ignore all the ones that don't win, that could be useful.
FWIW, here's Lukas' writeup of his experience.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4850894/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4850894/
- smallnamespace 10y ago> if all the tickets are free They're definitely not free; doctors have to evaluate what Watson says, and if Watson is wrong a significant fraction of the time, then doctors will spend a lot of time and energy barking up the wrong tree.
- jfoutz 10y agoEh, it's a tool. Some are useful, some less so. I imagine this would be a tier two kind of thing. It's an unusual case, what suggestions does the robot have? Maybe something obscure and easy to forget.
- apathy 10y agoDoctors have to evaluate what patients say, too, and they're forgetful or clueless at least as often as anyone else. If the cost-benefit analysis favors having Watson (or whatever) around, great, if not, great, just another decision to make.