The Economic Singularity: Artificial intelligence and the death of capitalism by Chace Calum

Author:Chace, Calum [Chace, Calum]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Three Cs
Published: 2016-07-18T04:00:00+00:00

And IBM is still pursuing moonshots, in the medical field and elsewhere. As we have noted several times, machine learning is fuelled by data. In October 2015, IBM paid $1bn for Merge Healthcare, a company with 30 billion medical images,[ccxlvi] and $2bn for the digital assets of The Weather Company, to build a weather forecasting service. At the end of the year it unveiled Avicenna, a product of the Watson healthcare business unit designed to help radiologists prioritise which images to review, and help them make diagnoses.[ccxlvii] The interesting question is, how long before at least some of those radiologists turn out to be superfluous to the process.

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