From: rsw@therandymon.com   
      
   Huge  writes:   
      
   > On 2017-04-04, JAB  wrote:   
   >> Siddhartha Mukherjee wrote a recent piece in New Yorker called "What   
   >> happens when diagnosis is automated?"   
   >> Annals of Medicine  April 3, 2017 Issue   
   >> A.I. Versus M.D.   
   >> What happens when diagnosis is automated?   
      
   > They did well. According to my dermatologist friend, the correct diagnosis   
   > rate by visual inspection is about 50:50.   
      
   Interesting how the toughest nut to crack with AI has been natural   
   language.  I know every major tech platform is working on digital   
   assistants like siri these days, but the equivalent of chatbots remain   
   easily fooled (a la Microsoft) and not quite right.   
      
   Maybe this is a more natural application for the tech.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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