AI has a long way to go before doctors can trust it with your life

Geoffrey Hinton is a legendary computer scientist. When Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Yoshua Bengio were given the 2018 Turing Award, considered the Nobel prize of computing, they were described as the "Godfathers of artificial intelligence" and the "Godfathers of Deep Learning." Naturally, people paid attention when Hinton declared in 2016, "We should stop training radiologists now, it's just completely obvious within five years deep learning is going to do better than radiologists." The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first AI algorithm for medical imaging that year and there are now more than 80 approved algorithms in the US and a similar number in Europe. Yet, the number of radiologists working in the US has gone up, not down, increasing by about 7% between 2015 and 2019.