From Lex Friedman’s interview with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang:
…The first job that computer scientists said, AI researchers said was going to die out, was radiology because computer vision was going to achieve superhuman levels… and it did.
Computer vision was supernatural in 2019…maybe a little later, in 2020.And so it’s been a long time since computer vision became superhuman. And so the prediction was that radiologists would go away as the study of radiology scans became a thing of the past. AI will do this. Well, they were absolutely right. Computer vision is completely supernatural. Today every radiology platform and package is powered by AI, and yet the number of radiologists has increased. And so the question is why?…
This is because the purpose of a radiologist is to diagnose disease and help patients and doctors diagnose disease. And because we are now able to study scans much faster, you can study more scans, you can make better diagnoses, you can look at the patient faster, you can look at people more. Hospitals are making more money. There are more patients in your hospital. You need more radiologists. I mean, the amazing thing is that it was so obvious that this was going to happen.
The interview is thoroughly fascinating. Much discussion of the past, present and future of AI. You can watch the full interview here.
