On 25/02/2011 5:44 PM, Jack Park wrote:
> A thought: it may be that just the task of knowledge engineering
> Watson-class systems for a particular domain will lead to new
> insights. Might not have to wait for Watson to start inferences, or
> during the debugging processes; just the task of thinking through
> *how* to organize resources for Watson to deal with them is, itself,
> an important learning opportunity.
>
It will be interesting to see how "ontologists" make the shift from
being "owltogists" to "Watson feeders".
It is early days with this technology and it will be interesting to see
what kinds of skill sets evolve as more Watson projects make their way
into the wild. (01)
Ron (02)
> Jack
>
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Ron Wheeler
> <rwheeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 25/02/2011 3:42 PM, Adrian Walker wrote:
>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> Here's a thought I have not seen discussed so far in the various excellent
>> threads about Watson.
>>
>> Watson is of course a major achievement, as it demonstrated by comfortably
>> winning Jeopardy.
>>
>> It's now official that IBM sees Watson has having potential in Medicine --
>> it could read the biological-medical literature and outperform the Doctors.
>>
>> However, for these purposes, there's a key difference between Jeopardy and
>> Medicine.
>>
>> In Jeopardy, humans know the right answers -- the city of Toronto is not in
>> the USA.
>>
>> In Medicine, humans don't have consensus answers to new questions (e.g. What
>> is the best treatment for multiple sclerosis). So, whatever algorithms
>> Watson uses will lead to new medical knowledge that humans cannot easily
>> check by thought experiments.
>>
>> Perhaps evidence-based medicine over structured data may help to to check
>> Watson's new medical knowledge?
>>
>> Of course, if Watson could produce English explanations of its answers, that
>> could help too.
>>
>> It appears that Watson can give you a lot of insight into how it arrived at
>> an answer including the various parallel processes that were done.
>> It probably can do a much better job of this than most humans since we
>> quickly forget the bad ideas and fruitless paths whereas Watson remembers
>> them all.
>>
>> Ron
>>
>> Just a Friday afternoon thought.
>>
>> -- Adrian
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