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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
That's a huge benefit. For example, now instead of referencing a limited number of resources about a few symptions, a doctor can ask a computer "Hey, what kind of disease would cause someone to XXXX with spots on their XXXX" and the computer can reference ALL the literature in the world and come to a conclusion that the doctor can then use as a starting point.
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What stopping a computer now adays from doing that? the breakthrough here is Watsons language abilities not it's search abilities. Im no medical professional but i would hope there is already a system in place where you can input symptoms and it would return a list of most probable matches.