Guest Post: AI vs MD – What it Means for Pathology The Digital Pathology Blog

It's the question on everyone's mind when reading Siddhartha Mukherjee's article in the New Yorker "AI vs MD", which pits human doctors against computers. It's a beautifully composed summary on the role of software algorithms in healthcare, examining the issue through the most controversial lens. Perhaps some radiologists read it and had an existential crisis. Surely some machine learning Ph.D.s read it and rolled their eyes with the gross simplicity with which deep learning was described. It's a shocking and provocative concept for any reader of The New Yorker – doctors are the best and brightest among us, even they could be outsmarted by a machine?