After about a year of training its Watson system on more than 600,000 pieces of medical evidence and 2 million pages of medical research, IBM is now offering a cloud-based Watson service to help oncologists develop the best-possible treatments for cancer patients.
Watson schooling our own Stacey Higginbotham at Jeopardy
Watson, if you’ll recall, was designed as a question-answering system that defeated two Jeopardy! champions on primetime television in 2011. A complex set of technologiesincluding natural-language processing, machine learning and other data-analysis techniques let it understand written questions, then analyze them against the source material to find the best possible answers.
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