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I’ve been looking for an appropriate analogy for the current AI hype and this sums it up perfectly.
Except models trained on medical images are actually pretty good at diagnosing some disorders. Models trained on random samples of the internet, not so much.
John McCarthy was right—AI is a terrible term.
The issue is that profit-driven hospitals will look at a model that can greatly assist in diagnosing certain things and go "Cool, we can fire those specialists and have some pre-med run the model and make an accurate diagnosis".
Technology replacing people has been a pretty consistent theme of the last hundred years or so—how many actual people does it take to build a car? What about all those skilled engineers? Humans have been building tools in order to put in less effort since the stone age. I don’t think we’re going to argue our way out of this one…