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mhhf1ve
mhhf1ve
1/25/2016 10:03:05 PM
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Re: Watson
The "scary" hacks for making a car kill someone seem to be a bit unlikely... Whoever did it would have to have physical access to the car itself -- or some really improbable way to remotely hack into a car's systems. 

Perhaps autonomous cars should be smart enough to detect incoming security breaches! 

But we're not there yet.

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DHagar
DHagar
1/25/2016 9:38:12 PM
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Re: Watson and AI
ms.akkineni, thanks good info.!  Artificial intelligence, Watson, and cognitive learning systems really make sense.  When you begin to produce "usable" information, and link telecomms as suppliers of new data sources, you have created a system that provides something you can't get easily otherwise.  I believe these data networks will increasingly be the standard and become a basic utility.

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DHagar
DHagar
1/25/2016 9:35:04 PM
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Re: Watson
mhhf1ve, boring yes, but much more accurate - which I will take!  Actually, I have been tracking the cognitive systems and analytics and it truly is fascinating, including the autonomous self-driving cars - including taking a course from the Stanford professor involved in that technology.

I think cognitive systems move technology into another realm in the ability to actually apply technology to the decisions and problems we face.  With the right balance it moves technology into a value that better defines the ROI for technology.

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ms.akkineni
ms.akkineni
1/25/2016 6:38:49 PM
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Watson and AI
 

Folks,

For people that are interetsed here is what I came across. Has a good insight of IBM's vision on Watson and Artificial Intelligence.

Mike Rhodin, head of IBM Watson, on the future of artificial intelligence.http://onforb.es/1SZ04w9

 

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Ariella
Ariella
1/25/2016 4:16:22 PM
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Re: Watson
@mhhf1ve This past week, I was talking to one of my kids about self-driving cars and hacked cars. She said that would end up on a crime show. Sure enough, last week's Elementary featured a murder via a hacked car with the software disabling the brake and driving it to crash. That's not a spoiler BTW because it became obvious right at the beginning. The only mystery was who was behind it and why. 

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Ariella
Ariella
1/25/2016 4:01:22 PM
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Re: Watson
@mhhf1ve Certainly, it's the wrong guesses and the near death (sometimes even actual death) experiences that the wrong approach brings about that adds to the drama. But real doctors really don't function that way. They think very much in the box about standard things. I know that from my own experience with my kids' pneumothorax. The doctor first thought it was pneumonia because that's much more common in the patients he sees. Then my son had a second one, and even though we brought him to a pumonologist, he didn't diagnose it as such because it didn't register on the X-ray then. He only said to still go to an emergency room because he advised a test for a blood clot, and labs would not have still been open then. 

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mhhf1ve
mhhf1ve
1/25/2016 3:48:07 PM
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Re: Watson
It's interesting that Dr Watson could point to less probable diagnoses -- as the human adage is usually "think horses, not zebras"... Watson doesn't have such biases in its programming to eliminate the weird diagnosis that might actually apply.

Watson would make for an incredibly boring episode of House (the TV medical drama), though... 

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mhhf1ve
mhhf1ve
1/25/2016 3:45:28 PM
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Re: Watson
DIY X-ray scanners might be a do-able one-off project, but actually making them for medical use by the layperson? That strikes as the same problem that Tesla pointed out to the guy who built a self-driving car in his garage:

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-george-hotz-self-driving-car/

Sure, it can be done.. but it doesn't have the layers of safety cross-checks and liability insurance as a full-fledged corporate-backed autonomous car does. Athough... 

http://www.wired.com/2015/10/obviously-drivers-are-already-abusing-teslas-autopilot/

As for the TSA body scanners, there have been some health inquiries for those... and most of those scanners use non-ionizing radiation (not x-rays!). The jury may still be out, but it's most likely about as harmful as cellphone radiation... or flying on a plane for a few hours.

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ms.akkineni
ms.akkineni
1/25/2016 11:01:01 AM
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Re: Watson
@Joe, @Ariella:

I always tend to think, no matter whichever option it is. They do go on with their way of CHECKING. But the real culprits always manage not to be causght in any of these checks. Till date we see/hear some random cases where they hold takeoff when they find someone onboard suspicious or found some material somewhere.

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Joe Stanganelli
Joe Stanganelli
1/25/2016 9:16:53 AM
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Re: Watson
@Ariella: "Some," of course, means whoever they feel like including in that category.

Which, knowing the TSA, is probably pretty much anyone who makes them go through the extra trouble of giving them a preemptive patdown.

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