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I used to think that the benefit of using AI in medicine, specifically radiology, was plausible.. There is SO much data in a CT scan or MRI that human eyes just can't see, you lose soo much granularity converting a 3D scan to a 2D image on a screen so some bloodshot doctor can look at it...
AI should, in theory, be able to read a scan and find pinprick tumors or irregularities and at least tell the doctors where to look...
But now, watching LLM's do their thing, I'm now convinced that there isn't an AI around that is worth it's weight in horse-shit.
LLMs are not the same as neural network machine based image sorting. It's been proven more accurate than pathologists.
I would still want a human being to verify the diagnosis before anything gets cut. ;-)
Pathology error rates are too high, everyone should be getting a second opinion and all pathology reports should be cross-checked.