Admid all the noise around AI, it’s worth remembering that there are some areas where it is unquestionably creating benefits, like early detection of breast cancer.
I lost both my parents to cancer before I was out of my 30s. I’ll cheer this use of AI every step of the way.
@adders It’s great when it helps human radiologists catch something they’d missed. But, as Cory Doctorow points out, it is all too often the opposite of that:
@philipbrewer @adders Instead of making 100 radiologists 1% better each, it makes 1 radiologist check the work of the AI and “somehow remain vigilant as they do so, despite the fact that the AI is usually right, except when it’s catastrophically wrong.”
@philipbrewer Oh, I don’t disagree. It will take us a while to get to grips with where this tech can actually help out, and how. And I think an AI crash would actually help us do that.
@philipbrewer I actually blogged about that Doctorow piece (but in the context of my day job) a couple of weeks ago (Towards the end, riffing on the reverse centaur thing)
