{"id":175132,"date":"2016-08-07T13:23:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T11:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=175132"},"modified":"2016-08-07T13:25:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T11:25:39","slug":"ibms-watson-diagnoses-rare-leukemia-better-than-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/175132-ibms-watson-diagnoses-rare-leukemia-better-than-doctors.html","title":{"rendered":"IBM&#8217;s Watson diagnoses rare leukemia better than doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IBM&#8217;s AI system Watson has\u00a0diagnosed a 60-year-old woman&#8217;s rare form of leukemia that had been incorrectly identified months earlier.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/08\/07\/ibms-watson-ai-saved-a-woman-from-leukemia\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Engadget<\/strong><\/a>, University of Tokyo doctors reported that the artificial intelligence diagnosed the\u00a0leukemia in 10 minutes using\u00a020 million cancer research papers.<\/p>\n<p>Watson also identified another rare form of leukemia in another patient, said the\u00a0university.<\/p>\n<p>Watson has made headlines in recent years for winning at Jeopardy and\u00a0cooking exotic meals.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on IBM<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/165408-ibm-achieves-storage-memory-breakthrough.html\">IBM achieves storage memory breakthrough<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/165158-ibm-patents-printer-that-cant-copy-or-print-copyrighted-material.html\">IBM patents printer that can\u2019t copy or print copyrighted material<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM&#8217;s AI system Watson has diagnosed a 60-year-old woman&#8217;s rare form of leukemia that had been incorrectly identified months earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":134840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,835,4632],"class_list":["post-175132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-ibm","tag-watson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175134,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175132\/revisions\/175134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}