alt Hacker NewsShouldn't A.I. not be used in a way that it only tries to assist? E.g. a doctor takes a look first and if (s)he can't find anything then A.I. is checking as well (or in parallel).
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flir • last Thursday at 9:51 AM
There was a study that found that, in radiology, human-first assessment resulted in worse outcomes that human-alone. Possibly the human's letting borderline cases through, on the assumption that the machine will catch them.
There's a roundup of such findings here, but they're a mixed bag: https://www.uxtigers.com/post/humans-negative-value I suspect you need careful process design to get better outcomes, and it's not one-size-fits-all.
directevolve • last Thursday at 8:34 AM
In case you missed it, they weren't using AI to make these diagnoses.
My personal opinion: AI should be still kept out of anything mission critical, in all stages, except for evaluation.
There is other comment very correctly noting that this result is on 100% positive input. Same AI in “real life” would score probably much better eventually. But as you point out, if used as a confirmation tool, is definitely bad.