IBM's Watson AI has been trained in medical fields such as oncology, but a recent report suggests that Watson recommended unsafe cancer treatments. The Watson AI isn't ready to replace physicians ...

IBM’s Watson supercomputer gave unsafe recommendations for treating cancer patients, according to documents reviewed by Stat. The report is the latest sign that Watson, once hyped as the future ...

Internal IBM documents show its Watson supercomputer made multiple "unsafe and incorrect" cancer treatment recommendations as IBM was promoting the product.

Responding to Stat’s report, a IBM spokesperson told Gizmodo that Watson for Oncology is trained to help oncologists treat 13 cancers and is being used by 230 hospitals around the world, and has ...

IBM is shrinking: In 2011, when the company first introduced the idea that Watson might be able to one day cure cancer, its revenues were $107 billion. They’ve gotten smaller every year since ...

IBM's Watson --the language-fluent computer that beat the best human champions at a game of the US TV show Jeopardy!-- is being turned into a tool for medical diagnosis.Its ability to absorb and ...

In an IBM commercial from 2016, an adorable, gap-toothed girl named Annabelle sits down on a couch to chat with Watson, the company’s supercomputer. Reminding her that her birthday is coming up ...

J UPITER, Fla. — There’s little evidence that IBM’s Watson supercomputer can correctly identify the best cancer treatments for a patient better than doctors do on their own.

IBM hopes doctors can integrate the forthcoming tool with Watson for Oncology for Doctors, a clinical tool practitioners are already using to help support some of their cancer treatments.

IBM recently reported that it will be modifying its Watson software to better reflect geographic differences in cancer treatment, according to the most recent article from STAT about this topic.

Lukas Wartman, MD, assistant director of cancer genomics at the McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University in St. Louis, analyzes genomic sequencing data using IBM Watson Genomic Analytics.

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