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It's a hard problem because the real problem is convincing a brain surgeon making $450,000 a year that he should be partially or wholly replaced with AI models.
by 0xy 4y ago
It's a hard problem because the real problem is convincing a brain surgeon making $450,000 a year that he should be partially or wholly replaced with AI models.
It's the same reason costs to build subway tunnels has dramatically increased in NYC, labor unions have the process by the throat and will accept not even a cent in reduced labor costs, even when improvements would improve safety or efficiency.
- the_d3f4ult 4y agoI am not aware of any AI model or technology that functions as anything beyond a toy in the healthcare space. There's very little utility to labelling things in healthcare - even in fields like ophthalmology, dermatology or radiology where companies have made some advances. Humans already do it very well and it's about 1% of the actual battle. Show me an AI that that can make a diagnosis, counsel a patient's family emergently, take the patient to surgery and do a craniotomy then nurse the patient for weeks in the neuro-ICU and I'll be super impressed. Moreover, it's the patient, not the neurosurgeon that has to make the decision to trust the AI.
- 0xy 4y agoHumans are terrible at giving healthcare. There are 8x more deaths in the US due to medical malpractice than from firearms. Clearly humans aren't very good at labeling if they get it wrong a huge portion of the time.