[Carry_Okie]

Good, we can stop paying radiologists in India for reading our diagnostic imaging systems.

[absalom01]

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.

[HonkyTonkMan]

This is great, actually. Specifically machine learning can be used to recognize patterns.

However, patients will still consult physicians to interpret the results and discuss treatment.

[Recompennation]

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.

[DFG]

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.

[bigbob]

If you want to sum up what AI is exceptionally good at in a few words, it is “detecting patterns”.

[NautiNurse]

BIG news ping!

[gitmo]

AI voice: Turn your head and cough.

[Tell It Right]

AI achieved statistically non-inferior and superior performance in detecting pancreatic cancer compared with a pool of participating radiologists.

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.

[forYourChildrenVote4Bush]

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.

[LS]

Now do dogs, who can sense cancer far earlier than human tests. If only they could talk.