Some Amusing Musings About AI

Let us begin with a quote from Yogi Berra:“It ' s tough to make predictions, especially about the future. ”Yes, round and round and round we go, and where we stop, nobody knows. The contentious AI discussions on Aunt Minnie continuead nauseum.We ' ve been having this very same discussion for YEARS now, with no real change, no resolution, no obvious final answer. And every time Google or some other NON-physician comes up with an algorithm they CLAIM will outdo a radiologist in detecting something somewhere on someone ' s scan, the sky is immediately declared to be falling. I ' m beginning to wonder if I ' m caught up in some Groundhog Day remake, where the nightmare won ' t end until Andie MacDowell falls in love with me (don ' t tell Mrs. Dalai!) Alternatively, I wonder if I ' ve been trapped in an HGTV marathon wherein every episode has the same 3-act play:AI can identify a cat picture, so we ' re doomedSelf-driving cars kill people, who are just as dead as if they had been killed by a drunk driver but Progress!You can ' t sue the computer...what would you get? Transistors? But the lawyers will find a way anyway.I ' ll repeat what I have said from Day One of this discussion:AI is a TOOL to be used to help radiologists help patients. This is the mantra of every HEALTHCARE company in that space. Google, by the way, is NOT a healthcare company.We radiologists need to be at the forefront of AI development, so it will do what we need it to do, not what some geek from Goo...
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs