Comment on AI Eroded Doctors' Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoOkay cool, that’s not what’s happening here.
These aren’t “vibe doctors.” They’re trained oncologists and radiologists. They have the skill to do this without the new tool, but if they don’t practice it, that skill gets worse. Surprise.
For comparison: can you code without a compiler? Are you practiced? It used to be fundamental. There must be e-mails lamenting that students rely on this newfangled high-level language called C. Those kids’ programs were surely slower… and ten times easier to write and debug. At some point, relying on a technology becomes much smarter than demonstrating you don’t need it.
If doctors using this tool detect cancer more reliably, they’re better doctors. You would not pick someone old-fashioned to feel around and reckon about your lump, even if they were the best in the world at discerning tumors by feel. You’d get an MRI. And you’d want it looked-at by whatever process has the best detection rates. Human eyeballs might be in second place.
RogueBanana@piefed.zip 1 day ago
I never implied they are vibe doctors? Its just a comment on my annoying experience, don't read to much into it.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
“Concerning that the same is happening in medical even for the experts.”
It isn’t.
Glad we cleared that up?
RogueBanana@piefed.zip 1 day ago
Yes indeed, AI problems. Glad we cleared it up.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
No. You’re making a faulty comparison. The thing in this article is exclusively for experts. Using it made them better doctors, but when they stopped using it, they were out-of-practice at the old way. Like any skill you stop exercising. Especially at an expert level. Your junior programmers incompetently trusting LLMs is not the same problem in any direction.
This is genuinely important, because people are developing prejudice against an entire branch of computer science. This stupid headline pretends AI made cancer detection worse. Cancer’s kind of a big deal! Disguising the fact that detection rates improved with this tool, by fixating on how they got worse without it, may cost lives.
A lot of people in this thread are theatrically advocating the importance of deep understanding of complex subjects, and then giving a kneejerk “fuckin’ AI, am I right?”