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Panel. watson is considering many, many possibilities just as you might do if you were working a diagnosis or coming up with treatment options. watson's collecting evidence from many, many different source, evaluating it, combining it, and deciding what's most likely the right answer here. >> okay. let's talk a more here about medicine. we'll go to dr. chase. according to the institute of medicine 98,000 people die interest medical errors in hospitals. it's the fifth leading cause of death in the u.s. how can doctors be sure they are getting the right information? >> well, at the end of the da...

Power ibm has 2,800. humans have 1 billion neurons. and computations per second watson has 200 trillion. humans have 100,000 trillion. i can't even imagine that number. watson has us beat on memory. watson is big and bad. we were riveted when we watched him, those of us who did watch him. it's not just about game show antics. there are very real medical uses for this technology. i want to bring in ibm's chief sicientist for watson and dr. herbert chase, a professor of clinical medicine at columbia university. thanks to both of you for joining us. both of you are in our new york stewudios and h...