Making Health Tech More Human

Intelligence is generally considered an exclusively human attribute, but we're fast approaching an age where machines will be considered intelligent as well. If this is indeed the case, it's only natural that machines will also develop a genuine personality. Many of them, such as Siri from Apple and Amazon's Alexa and Echo, already have names and voices. There's also Watson from IBM, a "cognitive assistant" that can read 40 million medical documents in 15 seconds and "understand, reason, and learn." Named after IBM's founder, Watson may soon eclipse all of us in knowledge as it continues to learn.