They were specifically trying to classify sex because it is something that experts cannot already do: > While our deep learning model was specifcally designed

They were specifically trying to classify sex because it is something that experts cannot already do: > While our deep learning model was specifcally designed for the task of sex prediction, we emphasize that this task has no inherent clinical utility. Instead, we aimed to demonstrate that AutoML could classify these images independent of salient retinal features being known to domain experts, that is, retina specialists cannot readily perform this task.