With help from Derek Robertson
Artificial intelligence was supposed to revolutionize human health — taking notes for doctors as they work, reviewing medical imaging and even drawing blood from patients. It attracts billions of dollars in venture funding a year.
Geoffrey Hinton, a famous computer and cognitive scientist who pioneered a system of machine learning that mimics how human brains work, boldly suggested at a machine learning conference that “people should stop training radiologists now. It’s just completely obvious that, within five years, deep learning is going to do better.”
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