From Lex Fridman’s interview with Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA:
…the first job that computer scientists said, AI researchers said was gonna go away was radiology because computer vision was going to achieve superhuman levels…and it did.
Computer vision was superhuman in 2019….maybe a little bit later, 2020.
And so it’s been a long time since computer vision has been superhuman. And so the prediction was radiologists would go away because studying radiology scans was a thing of the past. AI will do that. Well, they were absolutely right. Computer vision is completely superhuman. Every radiology platform and package today is driven by AI, and yet the number of radiologists grew. And so the question is why?…
The reason why is because the purpose of a radiologist, the purpose is to diagnose disease and help patients and doctors diagnose disease. And because we’re able to study scans so much faster now, you could study more scans, you could diagnose better, you could in-patient faster, you can see people more. The hospitals are making more money. You have more patients in the hospital. You need more radiologists. I mean, the amazing thing is, it’s so obvious this was gonna happen.
The interview is fascinating throughout. Much discussion of the past, present and future of AI. You can see the full interview here.
