In what's expected to soon be commonplace, artificial intelligence is being harnessed to pick up signs of cancer more accurately than the trained human eye. This latest AI model has a near 100% success rate and serves as a clear sign of things to come.
Why?
Basic safety that should be heavily regulated to prevent medical errors?
I know we live in the age of JavaScript where we don’t give a fuck about quality anymore but it shouldn’t be encouraged.
I’m both amused and mildly offended by the latter part of this comment.
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Because, even today, you can’t and will never have a 100% reliable answer.
You need to have at least 2 different validators to reduce the probability of errors. And you can’t just say, let’s run this check twice by AI as they will have the same flaw. You need to check it with a different point of view (being in term of technology or ressource/people).
This is the principle we apply in aeronautics since decades, and even with these layers of precautions and security, you still have accident.
ML is like the aircraft industry a century ago, safety rules will be written with the blood of the victims of this technology.
Let’s say we have a group of 10 people. 7 with cancer, 3 without.
If the AI detects cancer in 6 out of the 7, that’s a success of 86%.
If the AI detects cancer in 2 of the 3 healthy people, that’s a success of 100%.
So, operating the healthy ones always leads to a success and AI is trained by success. That’s why a human should look at the scans too, for now.
for now and always. medicine is something you dont want to entrust to automation.
Well, theoretically, an organism is nothing but a system running fully automatically. So I can see the possibility to have it fixed by another system. In the meantime, AI should support doctors, by making the invisible visible.