From: bruce2bowser@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, August 13, 2023 at 5:39:38 PM UTC-4, Chris wrote:   
   > Paul  wrote:   
   > > On 8/10/2023 2:43 PM, micky wrote:    
   > >> No one in popular news talked about AI 6 months ago and all of sudden    
   > >> it's everywhere.    
   > >>    
   > >> The most recent discussion I heard was about "using AI to read X-rays    
   > >> and other medical imaging".    
   > >>    
   > >> They have computer programs that will "look" at, examine, x-rays etc.    
   > >> and find medical problems, sometimes ones that the radiologist misses.    
   > >>    
   > >> So it's good if both look them.    
   > >>    
   > >> But is it AI? Seems to me it one slightly complicated algorith and    
   > >> comes nowhere close to AI. The Turing test for example.    
   > >>   
   > >> And that lots of thigns they are calling AI these days are just slightly    
   > >> or moderately complicated computer programs, black boxes maybe, but not    
   > >> AI.    
   > >>    
   > >> What say you?    
   > >>    
   > >   
   > > A radiologist assistant is not a Large Language Model.    
   > >    
   > > I would expect to some extent, image analysis would be a    
   > > "module" on an LLM, and not a part of the main bit.    
   > >    
   > > Bare minimum, it's a neural network, trained on images,    
   > > one at a time, that slosh around and train the neurons.    
   > >    
   > > For example, something like YOLO_5 (You Only Look Once), can    
   > > be trained to identify animals in photos. It draws a box around    
   > > the presumed animal and names it (or whatever). That uses a lot    
   > > less hardware than a Large Language Model, and less storage.    
   > > The article had a picture with a bear in it, and indeed, the    
   > > bear had a square drawn around it.    
   > >    
   > > But as for whether the "quality" is there, that is another    
   > > issue entirely. In my opinion, no radiologist would ever trust    
   > > something as sketchy as YOLO. Radiologists are very particular    
   > > about their jobs, as they hate getting sued.    
   >    
   > It's a sad reflection of priorities where the primary concern is about    
   > being sued rather than making sure patients get the best treatment.    
      
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