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UK government cuts funds for actually-working anti-cancer AI (pivot-to-ai.com)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

The government is backtracking on this cut. But when they said “AI,” they meant magical chatbots with costs in the fabulous future that would make them look cool. They didn’t mean medical systems that work, but cost money right now. This was always about the press releases.

In the grander scheme of things, I expect this shitshow will further reinforce notions of "AI" being utterly useless as a tech - auto-contouring was a real-life example of AI being useful, and it got thrown in the bin because it wasn't a magical chatbot that made radiologists obsolete.