Probably didn’t need me to tell you that tho

  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I think the proposed uses for AI (at least in medical imaging) is to tweak so that it has a very high false positive rate, low false negative rate, so it causes a reduction in the amount of work that radiologists do while missing as few actual positives as possible. Which is definitely useful and doesn't seem overly dangerous, but it's not "revolutionary" so it takes a backseat when talking about AI or anything. I think it's actually a shame that small improvements don't get sexy coverage, since really incremental improvements in science and engineering are probably as responsible for modern wonders as the initial revolutionary discoveries.