From 2019 pneumonia detection to today's frontier models: feels like AGI
Firm-Club-8334 · reddit · 2026-09-02
A doctor who developed an ML algorithm for pneumonia detection on chest X-rays in 2019 reflects on the unimaginable progress made since then. They state that if they could go back and explain the capabilities and reasonable cost of today's frontier models to their past self, that version of them would have undoubtedly called it AGI.
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