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Posted on 11/25/2025 2:40:02 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Good, we can stop paying radiologists in India for reading our diagnostic imaging systems.
I haven’t heard of that.
There’s a lot of hype about “AI”, which usually means some sort of LLM, without much seeming to come from it.
But here and there, on the margins, there are news stories like this showing versions of AI with actual, real world application.
And then there’s the authors of Alphafold getting the Nobel prize last year, and accurately predicting the structure of ~200 million different proteins.
And I recently learned that various AI systems have “solved” ~10 of Paul Erdős famous math problems, though some say that they just were able to find previously published solutions that had been overlooked. That’s impressive enought.
When these things are doing math, and science, and making actually useful interpretations of medical imaging, it’s going way past hype into something that seems much more significant.
And it’s happening really fast.
However, patients will still consult physicians to interpret the results and discuss treatment.
Yet it surmises that a 1-3/16” socket is actually being confused with an 1-1/16” 27 mm size ? AI fails to impress, lacks basis of thought.
Narrow focus, expert systems are what is beneficial, like this. Expert systems enhance human experts and are regarded as tools. But only in a narrow targeted scope/field.
My BIL is a retired Radiologist.
He worked 15 hours a day for 3 weeks and then took a week off. The long hours and volume of work was affecting his health so he retired at age 62.
You’re not serious, are you?
If you want to sum up what AI is exceptionally good at in a few words, it is “detecting patterns”.
Making predictions based on complex patterns.
I was told by a doc at Kaiser that they have been electronically transferring radiological images to India for reading.
BIG news ping!
Is it cheaper?
AI voice: Turn your head and cough.
Depends on whether your life is worth a potentially life saving early diagnosis for one of the most deadly cancers due to failure to detect in its early stages.
Hang tight to your money. You can always take it with you into the afterlife.
Is this news? I was under the impression that for decades it was routine for a CT scan or MRI scan to have the machine's image analyzing software review the image to try to find things to point out to the tech worker/ doctor. Quite often the image analyzer found something the tech worker would have overlooked.
....and who loses?
Pretty school there will be no good reason for careers in radiology much less med school.
You can upload a picture of your moles on to ChatGPT it will read it for you
Of course I went to dermatologist to make sure
Both ChatGPT and dermatologist told me the exact same thing.
“And it’s happening really fast.”
Yep, AI is going to dwarf the industrial and internet revolutions.
As a result it will cause major cultural and societal upheavals.
Buckle up!
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