One of my regular news sources surfaced an article about how IBM's Watson (discussed as part of my Smart Algorithms post) where AI Saves Woman's Life By Identifying Her Disease When Other Methods (humans) Failed. In just 10 minutes the AI (machine learning variety) compared the woman's genetic information with 20 million clinical oncology studies. A human doctor couldn't do that much in a lifetime let alone the short periods doctors get with patients in modern'medicine.' This is where computer algorithms have an edge over humans. The machine learning algorithm needs training, which is currently human guided, but once trained is so much faster at the tasks trained for than any human ever could be.