AI luminary and computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton, PhD,’s prediction in 2016 that AI would replace radiologists within five years was highly controversial in the radiology community – and ultimately completely off the mark. He acknowledged his error as part of a feature published May 14 in the New York Times.
Hinton told technology reporter Steve Lohr that he spoke too broadly in 2016 and that he didn’t make it clear then that he was speaking purely about image analysis. Furthermore, he said he was wrong on the timing but not the direction, the New York Times reported.
In his new prediction, Hinton said that most medical image interpretation will be performed by a “combination of A.I. and a radiologist, and it will make radiologists a whole lot more efficient in addition to improving accuracy.”
