• Shardikprime@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    I mean you can train ai to look for really early signs of multiple diseases. It can predict the future, sort of

    • Tayb@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      Didn’t one ai have a lot of false positives because it would say any picture of skin with a ruler in it was cancer? The moment it saw a ruler it responded with cancer because all the data it was fed about confirmed cancers had rulers in them.

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      22 days ago

      Detecting symptoms amd signs of a thing is not predicting the future.

      That’s like seeing a car that isn’t going to stop, so you slow down before you might T-bone them. That’s not really “predicting the future” but just paying attention and calculating likelihoods.