Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Meet Watson, Your Doctor in a Pizza-Size Box

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Meet Watson, Your Doctor in a Pizza-Size Box: "The original Watson system  consisted of 90 IBM Power 750 servers taking up 10 full racks. That works out to 2,880 CPU cores and 15TB of RAM. Watson now fits in a pizza box."

"WellPoint points out that doctors miss early stage lung cancer diagnoses about half the time. Watson, on the other hand, is able to get the right diagnosis on these same cases 90% of the time. Although, Watson will still hedge its bets: When a medical professional consults the system, they will receive results on an iPad or computer in about 30 seconds with possible courses of action sorted by confidence level."