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[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 106 points 1 week ago (44 children)

My knowledge on this is several years old, but back then, there were some types of medical imaging where AI consistently outperformed all humans at diagnosis. They used existing data to give both humans and AI the same images and asked them to make a diagnosis, already knowing the correct answer. Sometimes, even when humans reviewed the image after knowing the answer, they couldn't figure out why the AI was right. It would be hard to imagine that AI has gotten worse in the following years.

When it comes to my health, I simply want the best outcomes possible, so whatever method gets the best outcomes, I want to use that method. If humans are better than AI, then I want humans. If AI is better, then I want AI. I think this sentiment will not be uncommon, but I'm not going to sacrifice my health so that somebody else can keep their job. There's a lot of other things that I would sacrifice, but not my health.

[–] ILoveUnions@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

One of the large issues was while they had very good rates of correct diagnosis, they also had higher false positive rates. A false cancer diagnosis can seriously hurt people for example

[–] droans@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago

Iirc the issue was that the researchers left the manufacturer's logo on the scans.

All of the negative scans were done by the researchers on the same equipment while the positive scans were pulled from various sources. So the AI only learned to identify which scans had the logo.

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