{"id":5352,"date":"2017-04-10T10:11:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T04:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/?p=5352"},"modified":"2017-04-10T10:11:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T04:41:45","slug":"dna-column-the-story-of-watson-and-a-brave-new-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2017\/04\/10\/dna-column-the-story-of-watson-and-a-brave-new-world\/","title":{"rendered":"DNA Column : The story of Watson, and a brave new world"},"content":{"rendered":"

I write for the DNA on Watson,<\/strong><\/a> and the advances due to Artificial Intelligence, on Medicine.<\/p>\n

When the history of this new millennium is written, there will at least be a chapter on one of the most fascinating intelligences of this century, Watson. Except that the intelligence is artificial.<\/p>\n

Watson is the project undertaken by computer giant IBM, and aimed at making AI more ubiquitous. Named after Thomas Watson Snr, who built IBM into the pioneer in computing, Watson is making rapid strides in cognitive computing, the bit where computers start thinking, and making decisions like human beings.\u00a0\u00a0 Think<\/strong> was Thomas Watson\u2019s catch phrase. He believed that the \u201cThe trouble with every one of us is that we don’t think enough. We don’t get paid for working with our feet \u2014 we get paid for working with our heads\u201d. <\/em>\u00a0He also added \u201c\u201cAll the problems of the world could be settled easily, if men were only willing to think.\u201d On the very act of thinking, he refused to elaborate, saying that everyone will figure out what Think meant, when they saw the word, and, that there was no one route to thinking. This seems to be the philosophy with which Watson, the Artificial Intelligence system has been designed.<\/p>\n

Watson made a splash, when it was introduced two years ago, by beating contestants on the game show jeopardy. Jeopardy, was for long, considered one of the most difficult game shows. The clues were in the form of cryptic code, and the players made associations to get the right answer. Unlike more academic quizzes, here the contestant had to be aware of popular culture, and nuances of language. A typical question on Jeopardy would be \u201ci keep stacks of invoices in bins labelled A.R., for accounts receivable, & A.P, for this\u201d. What was interesting was that a machine picked up natural language and its nuances to be able to beat contestants. This primarily worked because those who designed the system, did not just programme it with instructions, but also taught to learn, much as a child learns. \u00a0A child, and many AI systems, learn by association. That is possibly the reason we are able to pick out nuances in tunes, or the difference between dogs, or can figure accents of people<\/p>\n

However, artificial intelligence and cognitive computing are more than the ability to beat humans at chess, or in gameshows. It is about how massive computing power can help issues that plague humanity. Among the many uses of AI, is in health care, where machines cannot just go through every single medical case, that is similar, in extremely short duration, but can also look at genome sequences, and predict different treatments for different people<\/a>, based on the sequence. Until now, medicine has only been able to provide a one size fits all.\u00a0 If someone has diabetes, or lung cancer, then the process of treatment is like another person suffering these. However, with this level of processing, and cognitive power, AI is changing complex medical care as well. Big Data analysts, biologists, computer scientists, \u00a0AI specialists are all working together to create treatments\u00a0 that would make not just make ailments like diabetes, or illnesses like cancer, a thing of the past, but also ensure that each person got the treatment finetuned to their body.\u00a0 And, how accurate is this? Recently, Watson analysed around a 1000 files of cancer patients<\/a>. It had to go through the files, and come up with a course of treatment. In 99% of the files, it\u2019s recommendation was the same as the human doctor; however, it additionally was able to diagnose 30% more cases that human doctors had missed out.<\/p>\n

What does this mean for us? It means that we are going to live longer, with fewer avenues of employment open to us. There seems to be nothing that we, as a species, can do, that machines can\u2019t do better. All this glorious technology is not science fiction, it is not a distant future, it is here and now. And, the starting point is to have a conversation about artificial intelligence that goes beyond the two polar points of view, one that states that it is going to be liberating humans from mundane tasks, and allowing them to reach true potential, and the other that says that human beings will have nothing to do, and will become slaves to the system; and ask how prepared are we, for this future; and what do we need to do to be prepared. Think.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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