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‘Embarrassingly simple’ probe finds AI in medical image diagnosis ‘worse than random’
(venturebeat.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2024
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This is pretty dumb, machine learning algorithms (fuck off with calling it AI) are especially good at seeing signs of disease in data such as xrays, CT and MRI scans. It's the one place they really help save time and prevent mistakes. And even if it's just to flag shit for a second opinion by a doctor and not to replace the doctor, that's still super useful. Pattern recognition is hard and these kinds of algorithms are very good at them if provided the right source data to work off.
If only the media and big corps would stop claiming LLMs are general AI, then maybe people would stop using them for stuff it's clearly not good at and not meant for.
This isn't dumb. This is a very good study as it is helping to remind people that these fancy new tools aren't good at everything. The media reporting on this is doing a service.
Edit: my bad making two responses
By casting doubt on a related but fundamentally different bit of medical tech? Yeah that's what we need: more folks questioning medicine based on pop science understandings of the technology.
Good point
A study debunking the usage of llm in medicine has almost no impact on general machine learning applications in medicine. This is textbook concern trolling.