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Kent hospital first to use AI to identify infections in patients
(www.bbc.co.uk)
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Which kind of AI? I certainly hope not LLMs.
Probably the same type of image recognition that volunteers have been training for years on data sets ranging from exoplanets to tumor cells.
Humans are terrible at unbiased image analysis.
and
Pigeons are more accurate. They just buy fewer BMWs.
The kind that has the side effect of making those doctors worse at their jobs
That's like people being worse at riding horses today. We don't need the skill because we have tools that replaced it and generally do a better job.
It's a good thing that we don't need any doctors to train the AI or verify its results afterwards, because otherwise you'd be dangerously wrong with this comparison.
That's fair. I'm probably not thinking it through. I can certainly see how this could quickly go downhill. I think we'll see the reality of it with today's school generations getting jobs in a few decades.
It says it in the article, it just takes some data from the patients chart and calculates a score for the person's risk of getting an infection.
Which is all an MD does. Glorified auto mechanics.