Hinton Admits He Was Wrong About Radiologists: More Scans, Not Fewer Jobs
IgorCarron · x · 2026-09-07
Geoffrey Hinton predicted in 2016 that radiologists would stop reading scans within about five years. A decade later he gives two reasons he was wrong: making scans cheaper and faster didn't reduce demand — hospitals simply did more scans — and he admits he never really understood the job itself, having pictured radiologists from one former student who mostly read scans alone. The AI half actually worked: machines got very good at reading scans; making one part of a job cheaper just didn't eliminate the role.
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