We need a thread on why AI WILL NOT replace radiologists in the next several decades. I’ll start.

[LegendaryBibimbap]

When are they going to stop beating this dead horse? Please work on getting a car to drive itself first. We were promised that 10 years ago now, has been real quiet about that recently.

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[Radology]

The godfather of AI was wrong in 2016 about predicting 10 years until radiologists would be replaced

I’m sure a YouTuber with 12k followers knows more though

 

[catnip12]

When are they going to stop beating this dead horse? Please work on getting a car to drive itself first. We were promised that 10 years ago now, has been real quiet about that recently.

 

[Radology]

Waymo is limited to geofenced locations that comprise 0.013% of the country’s landmass

Geofencing the entire country is more likely than cars becoming fully autonomous in our lifetime

 

[LegendaryBibimbap]

Dude I've been seeing that same video in different variations for two decades+ now. Talk about beating a dead horse. When can I actually buy a goddamn self driving car?

 

[hopefulraddaddypls]

I don’t want to generate views for it, so I’m going to politely pass on the vid.

The same content creator dropped a second video about it today

 

[SeisK]

The same content creator dropped a second video about it today

Two vids I need to politely pass on!?

 

[hopefulraddaddypls]

Two vids I need to politely pass on!?

I (sadly) watched it, basically a 40 min rant about how all the objections from software engineers and other physicians (not just radiologists) are wrong and just "cope", real informative lol

 

[Maybedoc1]

As someone who just matched DR this year and will be starting intern year soon, I'm hopeful that the tech bros are going to overpromise and underdeliver like they usually seem to do. Radiology seems easy to replace on paper, but I'm hopeful that it's not. Doing six years of training and then having to do a second residency would not be ideal.

 

[hopefulraddaddypls]

As someone who just matched DR this year and will be starting intern year soon, I'm hopeful that the tech bros are going to overpromise and underdeliver like they usually seem to do. Radiology seems easy to replace on paper, but I'm hopeful that it's not. Doing six years of training and then having to do a second residency would not be ideal.

Right there with you, no clue what I would retrain in

 

[Steve_Zissou]

As someone who just matched DR this year and will be starting intern year soon, I'm hopeful that the tech bros are going to overpromise and underdeliver like they usually seem to do. Radiology seems easy to replace on paper, but I'm hopeful that it's not. Doing six years of training and then having to do a second residency would not be ideal.

They are. Radiology is difficult because it requires integration of multiple knowledge domains as well as the visual aspect of things. Just wait till you see your first few complex cases and you’ll have an understanding of just how opaque image interpretation can be.

 

[LegendaryBibimbap]

It's funny because so far AI seems far more a threat to the artistic or creative fields right now, where hallucinations and making **** up are A-OK.

 

[odyssey2]

It's funny because so far AI seems far more a threat to the artistic or creative fields right now, where hallucinations and making **** up are A-OK.

I think artists, at least at the higher end in the true creative fields, will never really have anything to worry about since there's always going to be a hunger for art produced by other humans and the appreciation of art is entirely subjective anyway. With a field like rads, the inverse is true--AI is going to be useless if it's not correct, but once it's shown that AI is superior to humans and even human+AI on an objective scale there's no reason to keep humans around and you now have a moral obligation to get humans out of the way completely. Not saying this will happen anytime soon but it's an interesting thought expeirment.