The progress in AI performance and capabilities has been exponential. Systems from even half a year ago are already ancient history. So, if you were into them a couple of years ago, you will be astonished what they are capable of right now.
I don’t know a single scholar, scientist, or IT engineer who isn’t using AI, and most of them use it heavily.
It’s already a pretty much established fact that there will be no need in coders / developers in the near future:
AI godfather says CS degrees matter, but mid-level programmers might be replaced by AI soon
Already today, 10-15 per cent of ALL jobs can be replaced by AI, and in a decade, there will be only a handful not automated jobs (mostly trades like electrician, plumber, then, nurses and social workers, and some others)
And, as physicist Sabine Hossenfelder recently said,
Someone marked this as off-topic, but I don’t see anything “off-topical” here.
Still, I have reservations about AI in radiology, particularly when it comes to education. One of the main promises of AI is that it will handle the “easy” scans, freeing radiologists to concentrate on the “harder” stuff. I bristle at this forecast, since the “easy” cases are only so after we read thousands of them during our training—and for me they’re still not so easy! The only reason my mentors are able to interpret more advanced imaging is that they have an immense grounding in these fundamentals. Surely, something will be lost if we off-load this portion of training to AI, as it would if pilots turned over their “easy” flights to computers. As the neuroradiologist and blogger Ben White has pointed out, inexperienced radiologists are more likely to agree with an incorrect AI interpretation of a scan than radiologists with more experience, suggesting that in the future we will need even stronger humans in radiology, not rubber-stampers.
If AI degenerates and doesn’t have a good “sparring partner” or doesn’t receive good input, won’t we lose out over time? Okay, maybe that will happen anyway, and AI will just speed up the whole process.
If someone already has a great deal of knowledge and profound expertise, then AI is probably helpful. But will this still be the case in the age of AI? Or will everything simply degenerate more quickly?
From a dystopian perspective, I simply see robots/humanoids taking over these jobs
