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IBM: Watson will eventually fit on a smartphone, diagnose illness
IBM executives are working with healthcare systems to perfect supercomputer Watson’s ability to diagnose and suggest treatments. And by 2020, Watson could fit on a smartphone.
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Interesting. Whether such a system running on a handheld device could compete with AI running on vast server farms (such as Google Now, or whatever it becomes) is another question.
Still, another big step along the way to a real medical Tricorder.
web service will be sufficient. no need to run on a snapdragon/whatever cpu.
This would fix those greedy doctors, but what of surgery and hospitalization? Â It would be great if I could get my cell phone to prescribe me something and I could get it filled, all electronically while I was on the move. Â We could even expand that a bit further by having a chase car come up along side me and a boy hands me a bag through a window while i was driving on the freeway.
I've thought of the same thing for refilling the car too. Â Moving gas station where you didn't have to stop. Â Neat idea hugh…
Darn it +James Karaganis , beat me to it. First thing I thought of: Medical Tricorder. 🙂
+Bruno Jennrich that' pretty similar to what Apple's Siri does. I even wouldn't be surprised if Watson works for that service.
+Roman Gorshunov Watson is so far beyond what Siri can do that there is no comparison.
+John Skeats yes, but today it is easier and cheaper to access those big and expensive expert systems remotely – the way Siri is accessed from mobile and Watson from hospitals. There is no direct comparison though.
+Roman Gorshunov What the article is saying is that the Watson back end could fit on a smartphone by 2020, not that it could be possible to access it via a smartphone then. Today's technology could easily allow you to access Watson from a smartphone. That requires no invention whatsoever.
+John Skeats please, see comment from +Bruno Jennrich. I totally agree with you.
+Roman Gorshunov The web service is fine for some uses but there are places in the world where there is no web service so web service is not a viable answer everywhere. The other point of the article is that the technology is shrinking so carrying around that technology will make sense. After all, who would have thought when NASA was running the Apollo program that we would be able to carry around smartphones that have more capacity than all of the computers used for that entire program combined? But that is true today.