Radiologists push back: AI replacing them is far harder than VCs think

Radiologists and AI practitioners push back on the notion that radiology is easy to automate, citing long-tail cases, sample-size limits and the late WT Miller Sr.'s observation that the first 10,000 chest X-rays are the easy ones. One blogger argues that asking when and why AI will replace radiologists is a litmus test for AI understanding.

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