Haven’t read any article about this specific ‘discovery’ but usually this uses a completely different technique than the AI that comes to mind when people think of AI these days.
From the conclusion of the actual paper:
Deep learning models that use full-field mammograms yield substantially improved risk discrimination compared with the Tyrer-Cuzick (version 8) model.
If I read this paper correctly, the novelty is in the model, which is a deep learning model that works on mammogram images + traditional risk factors.
Johanno@feddit.org 1 month ago
That’s why I hate the term AI. Say it is a predictive llm or a pattern recognition model.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
According to the paper cited by the article OP posted, there is no LLM in the model. If I read it correctly, the paper says that it uses PyTorch’s implementation of ResNet18, a deep convolutional neural network that isn’t specifically designed to work on text. So this term would be inaccurate.
Much better term IMO, especially since it uses a convolutional network. But since the article is a news publication, not a serious academic paper, the author knows the term “AI” gets clicks and positive impressions (which is what their job actually is) and we wouldn’t be here talking about it.
BeliefPropagator@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
That performance curve seems terrible for any practical use.
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loonsun@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Yeah that’s an unacceptably low ROC curve for a medical usecase
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Good catch!
FierySpectre@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well, this is very much an application of AI… Having more examples of recent AI development that aren’t ‘chatgpt’(/transformers-based) is probably a good thing.
wewbull@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Op is not saying this isn’t using the techniques associated with the term AI. They’re saying that the term AI is misleading, broad, and generally not desirable in a technical publication.
steventhedev@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The correct term is “Computational Statistics”
spechter@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Stop calling it that, you’re scaring venture capital
0laura@lemmy.world 1 month ago
it’s a good term, it refers to lots of thinks. there are many terms like that.
wewbull@feddit.uk 1 month ago
So it’s a bad term.
GetOffMyLan@programming.dev 1 month ago
It’s literally the name of the field of study. Chances are this uses the same thing as LLMs. Aka a neutral network, which are some of the oldest AIs around.
0laura@lemmy.world 1 month ago
the word program refers to even more things and no one says it’s a bad word.
Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
The problem is that it refers to so many and constantly changing things that it doesn’t refer to anything specific in the end. You can replace the word “AI” in any sentence with the word “magic” and it basically says the same thing…