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Machine learning the hard way: IBM Watson's fatal misdiagnosis

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Diagnosis

I'm slightly concerned that diagnosis can't be automated. How is a doctor's intuition squared with the scientific method?

Surely the implication is that as human doctors skills must vary enormously, diagnosis is basically random?

Or was this failure about things other than diagnosis?

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