1. Laid-off IBM Watson Health workers call AI initiative a bust
Engineers recently laid off from IBM Watson Health, the company’s division rooted in artificial intelligence, say the company’s mission to make AI profitable is failing.
2. Elon Musk suggests he’s only months from ‘merging’ the human brain with AI
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, said he is only months away from revealing a product developed by his neurotechnology company Neuralink.
3. IBM’s Watson recommended ‘unsafe and incorrect’ cancer treatments, STAT report finds
IBM’s Watson supercomputer, once hailed as a revolutionary cancer treatment tool, reportedly gave physicians inaccurate cancer treatment advice, and company medical specialists and customers reported “multiple examples of unsafe and incorrect treatment recommendations,” according to internal IBM documents reviewed by STAT.
4. Japanese hospital to add 4 robots to support nurses, clinicians on night shifts
Nagoya University Hospital in Japan said it would use robots to ease the workloads of its nurses and other staff members during night shifts.
Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital will soon have new, high-tech means of coordinating patient care. Under a new agreement with GE Healthcare, TGH, a 1,010-bed teaching hospital, is building a NASA-inspired command center designed to serve as a central mission control.
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