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In 2011 wins IBM computer Watson first prize of two of the most winning contestants in the American TV quiz show “Jeopardy”.
Every time Watson gets asked a question during the TV program, the machine uses three seconds to find the correct answer.
the three seconds using your computer to go through hundreds of processes at once.
Understands the world almost like a human
Watson’s victory in Jeopardy has great entertainment value and becomes a hit on Youtube. But behind the “brains” is three years of 20 researchers intense efforts to develop technology called DeepQA.
The goal has been to create a new generation of technology that can find answers in unstructured data in a much more efficient way than previous technology has managed.
the revolutionary data platform Watson is that it can understand the world much the same way that humans do, through the senses, learning and experience.
Cancer Stricken woman got help
Just health is the most exciting area Watson could revolutionize. Earlier this year he Watson to solve a medical mystery, as doctors at a hospital in Tokyo had scratched their heads over several months.
They tried for a long time to find the right treatment for a woman with leukemia, but every attempt to combat leukemia failed.
When IBM genius computer Watson took over, it used only ten minutes to study patients’ medical records and cross check the information about her condition with over 20 million oncological reports .
Watson concluded that the woman did not have the type of leukemia that doctors initially thought, but rather a very rare variant which required a different type of treatment than the one she had been, writes Siliconangle.
Coming to Oslo
Oslo Cancer Cluster (OCC) has partnered with IBM. Watson will now get their own innovation laboratory in the premises of the OCC, which is adjacent to the Radium Hospital. Here, IBM employees work closely with both the hospital and the research, says Ketil Widerberg, general manager at OCC.
– We have a national health care system, biobanks and registers Cancer Registry, which makes Norway unique compared to other countries . We have large amounts of data, but does not quite know what to do with them, says Widerberg.
- 19 and 20 September, the Aftenposten a new conference on technology and the future labor market. Here’s artificial intelligence one of the themes, and Watson are presented. Read more about the conference here.
Cancer to live with
Widerberg think technology is really exciting and promising for what he calls “precision medicine”.
– There are great opportunities in the treatment and understanding of structured and unstructured data, which can help make cancer a chronic but non-fatal disease, says Widerberg.
– the type of computer software that IBM Watson represents is self-learning and can analyze and process data in such a way that it can recommend what type of treatment a patient should receive. It can help a doctor so he or she can make a more accurate decision, at an earlier time than today, says Widerberg.
– We are a little in the same situation as when we developed the oil industry: we had crude, but did not know how to get it up. We have to cooperate with major international actors to build up Norwegian industry. The same is our goal now, we are going to build up Norwegian health industry in health data and cancer treatment, says Widerberg.
Ploughman as a tractor
Bjorn Magnus Mathisen fellow in artificial intelligence and machine learning at NTNU and SINTEF, said that there has been a tremendous development over the past 5-10 years.
– Just like a tractor can plow larger areas in a shorter time than humans can own, Watson and other machines AI get an overview of large amounts of data in a much shorter time than humans have the opportunity. Therefore, the technology first revamp areas where there are a lot of data, such as health and transport, says Mathisen.
Understands “normal” language
Computers have long been of assistance in the health sector, but it has until now been a challenge that the machines do not understand natural language.
Because Watson understands natural language and can respond, it is no longer necessary to translate research articles, treatment guidelines, patient records and hospital records, textbooks, notes and emails to structured computer language.
a doctor can ask Watson a question and describe the patient’s symptoms and other relevant factors. Watson analyzes the information from the doctor and combines it with the latest research results and examining all available sources.
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When Watson “finished thought” there will come a list of potential diagnoses together with an estimate that shows the validity of each diagnosis.
Professor Gunnar Sæter, head of the Institute of cancer Research, says that the cancer drug develops so that each patient becoming more and more unique.
– the data generated for a single patient becomes so large that we need help from artificial intelligence to interpret them, says Sæter.
He believes artificial intelligence may help to give cancer patients a more precise treatment, but says that a machine can not be alone in making the assessment of a patient.
– It’s not that a machine can do everything without doctors thinking self. We will still need a good clinical patient assessment. We must find a good way to combine this, and that is what we are beginning to learn about now, says Sæter.
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access to the latest knowledge
Thomas Anglero, innovation director at IBM, believes Watson can make a big difference in the treatment of cancer patients in Norway.
– Watson have already been trained by America’s premier cancer hospital. The goal is that any doctor at any place in Norway should be able to gain access to the latest knowledge in the field via Watson says Anglero.
Watson is not only “computer brain”, or artificial intelligence, that can be used in the health industry. Major players such as Google and Amazon have gone heavily into and invested in companies developing artificial intelligence.
The robot “Pepper” has got a job at the security checkpoint
Understand hidden meaning
Watson is still leading the field, and the computer brain can be used in far more areas than health care. Earlier this year, IBM partnered with Softbank’s Robotics to load data and knowledge of the latter’s robot called “Pepper”.
The aim is to give the robot an understanding of the hidden meaning in the data that traditional computers can not understand including social media, videos, photos and text.
- not everyone is as excited about robots. In China and India do the thousands of factory workers unemployed
Recognizes emotions
The characteristic with Pepper is that it is the first robot that can recognize the most important human emotions and adapt their behavior after party’s mood.
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Based on your voice, your expression face, body movements and words you use, interpret Pepper your feelings and will respond appropriately.
today 140 Softbank mobile stores in Japan Pepper to greet customers welcome, inform and entertain them. A large bank chain in Japan has “hired” Pepper to inform its customers in different languages. Earlier this year it was announced that Belgian airports must be secured by means of robots, and Pepper is first out.
Breakthrough
Although it’s been researched artificial intelligence since the 1950s , it is only now that it happens a breakthrough in technology.
But it does not follow with any challenges?
– in the worst case it may for example be used in a cyber war to go attacks on infrastructure in the community, but I think this stuff is far in the future. The greatest danger is probably that artificial intelligence will take over many jobs and thus increase inequalities in society. Ultimately, artificial intelligence give us so many opportunities and positive changes that it makes up for any challenges, says Mathisen at NTNU.
Sources: IBM, Wikipedia, Inverse, Siliconangle, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics Softbank
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