June 06, 2016

A Cleveland Clinic doctor is an IBM Watson ad about healthcare applications

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Dr Sikon highlights how Watson can help Cleveland Clinic doctors manage data overload, giving them more time to plan the best treatments for patients. "IBM Watson helps hospitals outthink data overload."

Here’s the ad featuring Dr Sikon:



More videos here:

IBM Cognitive Era - YouTube http://buff.ly/288DSqd

How It Works: IBM Watson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtdJ1DGJjXA

Disclaimer: I am an allergist/immunologist at Cleveland Clinic Florida.
June 03, 2016

App allows anybody to snap a photo of a passerby and discover their real name — with 70% reliability

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From MarketWatch:

250 million video surveillance cameras have been installed throughout the world, and chances are you’ve been seen by several of them today. We leave our “faceprints” everywhere we go.

FindFace app allows anybody to snap a photo of a passerby and discover their real name — with 70% reliability. What’s particularly unsettling are the use cases the app creators advocate: identifying strangers to send them dating requests, helping government security agencies to determine the identities of dissenters, and allowing retailers to bombard you with advertisements based on what you look at in stores.

References:

Facial recognition will soon end your anonymity http://buff.ly/1TNdLLQ

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