Stop the nurses before it's too late

[A-Stark]

How is Watson going to take a history or perform a physical examination? That's at least 80% of the diagnostic "algorithm" right there. The rest is narrowing the differential with appropriate investigations if there remains significant uncertainty.

[mrozed]

How is Watson going to take a history or perform a physical examination? That's at least 80% of the diagnostic "algorithm" right there. The rest is narrowing the differential with appropriate investigations if there remains significant uncertainty.

 

 

Part of what the IBM team is working on is pairing Watson's analytical AI capabilities with advanced speech recognition to produce an expert system in which the computer would be able to query and respond to a human client in a conversational style, so history-taking by a machine might still be plausible in the future (think Star Trek ). As for performing the physical exam, integrated robotics and diagnostics might be able to accomplish that role when combined with the other expert systems. What we think of as impossible/implausible today might very well become reality in the future, and not necessarily the distant future either.

[A-Stark]

I'd say there's a world of difference between "plausible", "possible", and "feasible". As for robots... I'd say that Data is a long way off.

[lostintime]

Lol that's awesome for rapport. Having a robot talk to you and touch you.

[EoE]

So I am little confused here... Who am I supposed to be afraid of? Nurses or robots? Thanks a lot guys, now I am going to have dreams about being touched by robot nurses.

[coastalslacker]

How is Watson going to take a history or perform a physical examination? That's at least 80% of the diagnostic "algorithm" right there. The rest is narrowing the differential with appropriate investigations if there remains significant uncertainty.

 

It'll be interesting to see - eventually someone will try to figure out automated diagnoses some day. When it comes to stuff I know, most of the time the diagnosis is made by making a snap judgment about the patient as I walk through the door and then adding the first couple minutes (often less) of history. It really becomes almost intuitive and is the exact opposite of algorithms. Most importantly, you know when your spidey sense goes off that something isn't fitting quite right.

[ploughboy]

Thanks a lot guys, now I am going to have dreams about being touched by robot nurses.

 

That's kinda hot...

[pbear]

That's kinda hot...

 

 

No. You want real nurses touching you. Not robot ones.

[stevenson]

*queue the spooky sound effects*

[ScholarsWander]

 

Not sure if anyone has posted this, given its relevance to the last few parts of the discussion.

 

If a repeat - sorry!

 

 

If nothing else, an entertaining talk.

 

Go Tigers!