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It'll be a while before I'll take medical advice from a machine that "thought" Toronto is in the US.
by teeja 14y ago
It'll be a while before I'll take medical advice from a machine that "thought" Toronto is in the US.
- minikites 14y agoBecause human doctors never make mistakes? Run the numbers: who makes more mistakes in aggregate: machines like Watson or human doctors? I'll take whichever is less.
- viscanti 14y agoThis would (possibly) be true if all mistakes were weighted equally. As soon as some mistakes have more weight (like maybe the machine killed you on accident because it thought your spleen was in your ear), then looking at aggregate numbers doesn't cut it. You'd need to look at both the frequency of errors, as well as severity of errors. I'll take the guy who messes up 50% of the time, but at worst will give me a paper cut over the hypothetical machine who only makes mistakes 1% of the time, but they're always fatal.
- ilaksh 14y agoHow about 10 - 20 years from now?
- flatline 14y agoThat answer was below the confidence threshold, so it just guessed, because it was final Jeopardy and it had nothing to lose at that point by guessing. For something like medical advice, AI tools like Watson are meant to be used by a domain expert, anyway. Even Starship Enterprise still had doctors...
- JanezStupar 14y agoId like to see your trusted doctor try Watson head on in a Medical Jeopardy.