IBM, in collaboration with the software manufacturer for medical applications WellPoint and the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Treatment Center at Memorial Hospital in New York, reveal the first applications of the cognitive computing system
IBM, in collaboration with the medical application software manufacturer WellPoint and the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Treatment Center at Memorial Hospital in New York, are revealing the first applications of IBM's cognitive computing system Watson, in the world of medicine and cancer treatment. The use of the new tools will help in improving treatment and speeding up the diagnostic processes and managing the relationship with the patient, through the application of the principles of evidence based medicine.
The American Cancer Society predicts that this year 1.6 million new cancer cases will be diagnosed in the US alone. Studies point to the fact that the complexity of the medical treatment processes in the US causes incorrect or insufficient treatment to be given in one out of five cases. These statistics, along with the explosion of medical information volumes, which double every five years, present an opportunity for the American healthcare industry to harness the new generation of cognitive computing systems, and to join forces in new ways that will allow improving the way doctors are trained, the day-to-day work and the payment processes.
For more than a year, IBM has been collaborating with Well-Point and Memorial Sloan-Kettering, in the practice and training processes of the Watson computer system, which is capable of learning and analyzing unstructured information and communicating with the environment in normal human speech - for the purpose of improving the management of cancer treatment. During this year, expert doctors and technologists spent thousands of hours "training and learning" Watson in how to process, analyze and interpret complex clinical information, using normal natural human speech in conversation with the patient - all in order to improve the quality of medical care.
The first products born as part of this collaboration, and now presented for use on a full commercial basis, are expected to be the first in a series of tools that apply Watson's technology in a wide variety of economic fields and industries.
To date, Watson has taken in and processed more than 600,000 pieces of medical information, two million pages of text from 42 medical journals and clinical research data in the field of cancer. Watson is able to search a database of 1.5 million patients representing decades of history of various treatments, combine this data and present the doctor with treatment options based on lessons learned and results of previous experiments and treatments. At Memorial Sloan-Kettering, Watson was adopted as a tool to deal with the complexity involved in understanding cancer, and in view of the rapid expansion of genomic research leading to new methods of treatment, adapted to the individual genetic profile of each patient and each cancer tumor.
The doctors and analysts at the hospital guide the Watson system in the processes of deriving and interpreting the doctor's notes, the results of laboratory tests and clinical studies and in weighing hundreds of thousands of other cases previously treated by different doctors.
Starting in December of last year, Watson answers the questions presented by doctors who serve the insured of the health plans of Well-Point in the Midwest region of the USA. The developers anticipate that the computer will be a central tool for speeding up the examination and selection processes of various treatments.
The new products run analytical analysis on large amounts of structured data and unstructured data in an even larger amount, Big Data. The systems are designed to help doctors, researchers, medical centers and insurers - in order to optimize and speed up the treatment processes. IBM's Watson systems form the infrastructure for the "Interactive Care Insights for Oncology" package, and for an interactive treatment guide, which were developed as part of this tripartite collaboration.
A first consultation system of its kind for doctors treating cancer patients, based on Watson and available through a computing cloud. The system offers treatment options for patients with various tumors - and in the first stage it is intended for doctors dealing with patients with lung cancer. Oncologists from anywhere in the world can access this system, in order to receive information that will assist them in making treatment decisions.
The new systems optimize the treatment management processes, and the relationship between the attending physician and the health insurer in the US. The developers predict that its activation will shorten the approval processes of treatments and make them accessible to a wider public.
Since entering the public consciousness, when it defeated the champions of the champions in the televised knowledge game Jeopardy!, IBM's Watson system has transformed from a first-of-its-kind technological purpose display - to a cognitive system available on a commercial basis, and applied in a wide variety of content areas and industries. In the last three years, there have been 240% improvements in the system's performance, and a 75% reduction in the floor space required for it. Today, a Watson system can be run on a single Power 750 server.
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Kurzweil makes far more delusional claims than you do. For example, if I am not mistaken, within a hundred years death will be abolished because the brain will be converted into a computer system including all the consciousness that is in the brain. Most experts do not take Kurzweil's highly exaggerated predictions seriously, fans of fantasy and science fiction take him more seriously as he excites their tendencies.
Kurzweil has now received a senior appointment at Google, because he has a talent for building machines from wild thoughts and imagination. I hope it doesn't cause too much damage to Google. Already I can't stand the obscene practice of Google's search engine knowing what I'm going to search for, as this pretense only makes it harder for me to search. When I search on Google, I don't want Google to search again and again for what I searched for in the past, but rather I search for things that I have not searched for in the past; Google is trying to force past searches on me by placing them at the top of the results.
Yaron, Ray Kurzweil is talking about exactly the direction you were talking about, he is not claiming that the robots with artificial intelligence will take over us, but he is claiming that little by little we will integrate the technology within us until finally it will become an inseparable part of us, we and the technology will integrate together into one being.
It starts already today with the whole field of transplants, an artificial heart, artificial limbs that are becoming more and more sophisticated and are even beginning to be controlled directly by the brain, the first tests have already begun with artificial eyes and artificial hearing implants, and a digital chip is already implanted in the brains of Parkinson's patients today, which in the new versions can even be loaded into it from the outside software updates.
And it's only getting better and better, in the future more and more chips will be integrated into our brains that will allow us, for example, to perform complicated mathematical calculations directly in our brains for which today we need an external pocket calculator.
In the future, more and more biological brain pieces will be replaced by chips, until finally our entire brain will consist only of electronics and chips that will allow us to perform a thinking process millions of times faster than the slow thinking process that characterizes the biological brain we have today.
Regarding God, I don't understand what the connection is between his existence and consciousness? Why do you make a connection between the two?
And in any case, with or without consciousness - God is an invention of humans.
The Kurzweil Singularity is close, or they're just making a lot of noise.
In my opinion, based on my knowledge of artificial intelligence, which I deal with part of the time in my studies, the layer of the human senses is close to cracking. I am sure that we will have consciousness before there is a quantum computer that will accelerate the speed of calculation available by giving the conscious layer the bit of data it needs in real time to To do something a little more advanced, or there will be more progress in mathematical understanding of the essence of consciousness than there is today. I read what's on today. When that happens, I would rather tools be created to upgrade human cognitive abilities than robots. that we will produce cyborgs. Otherwise the inevitable is that it will in my opinion be the end of the era of man and the beginning of the era of control of a different kind of consciousness. In my opinion, the development of consciousness does not contradict the existence of God. That is, if we have managed to develop an apparent consciousness, we do not need God. There is no way to prove its existence, in my opinion, except to yourself - and this is called believing that the "soul" can reside in any body that exists. I have no problem with atheists. There is enough in common in science and culture that we can live together and each person can live in his faith as long as he does not force it on us.
I read proofs of the existence of God by Maimonides, Kant and one of the French: Voltaire, Descartes, Pascal (can't remember). All of them can be found flawed based on today's mathematical methods. But I believe they were right and there is a God.
In what sense do today's mathematics and sciences detract from proofs. As the infinitesimal calculus cancels out a part
From the paradoxes of antiquity, and just as our knowledge of evolution and physics saves us the need to assume that someone drives the system forever.
For those who want to remember the capabilities of this amazing computer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12rNbGf2Wwo
The "Air Network" system? 🙂