IBM Watson Reportedly Recommended Cancer Treatments That Were 'Unsafe and Incorrect'

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: July 26, 2018 at 6:23:49 AM GMT+9
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] IBM Watson Reportedly Recommended Cancer Treatments That Were 'Unsafe and Incorrect'
>
>
> IBM Watson Reportedly Recommended Cancer Treatments That Were 'Unsafe
> and Incorrect'
>
> https://gizmodo.com/ibm-watson-reportedly-recommended-cancer-treatments-tha-1827868882
>
>      Internal company documents from IBM show that medical experts
>    working with the company's Watson supercomputer found
>    "multiple examples of unsafe and incorrect treatment
>    recommendations" when using the software, according to a
>    report from Stat News.  Stat reviewed documents that were
>    included in two presentations given in June and July 2017 by
>    IBM Watson's former deputy health chief Andrew Norden. The
>    documents were reportedly shared with IBM Watson Health
>    management.  According to Stat, those documents provided
>    strong criticism of the Watson for Oncology system, and stated
>    that the "often inaccurate" suggestions made by the product
>    bring up "serious questions about the process for building
>    content and the underlying technology."



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