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.
Analytical AI is much more useful than generative AI and even if it were LLMs doing the work, with a doctor checking it can be very beneficial
And if they do misdiagnose one in five patients, well, they shouldn’t have gotten infected, it’s their fault.
AI can be a force multiplier for doctors. The catch is it needs to be doctor led. It’s quite trivial for a doctor to dismiss the obvious hallucinations. If it also points them towards more subtle signs they would potentially miss, then that’s a net win.
