“Will AI replace doctors?” makes for a great headline, a great dinner party argument, and a great way to stress out a podcast co-host. It’s also, unfortunately, the wrong question.

In a follow up to our last episode, we respond to our listeners’ feedback. We put co-host and radiologist Jonathan Mates on the spot and use radiology as our test case — the specialty that’s been at the center of this conversation longer than any other, partly because the job looks simple from the outside. You look at pictures. AI looks at pictures. What’s the problem? It turns out there are a lot of problems.

We get into what radiology actually involves, why AI can be impressive and still not replace humans, and some other factors we need to consider when answering this (wrong) question.

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Geoff Hinton on radiology