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by et2o 3706 days ago
"helps with cancer research"

Sure... Show us a single publication.
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ohhoe 3706 days 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...

https://www.mskcc.org/about/innovative-collaborations/watson...

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toast_coder 3706 days 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....

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ohhoe 3706 days ago
No... it wouldn't be going the other way. You have to train with corpuses of data.
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ChristianBundy 3706 days 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?
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et2o 3706 days 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.

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