Hinton's 'Stop Training Radiologists' Prediction Aged Badly, and Everyone Noticed
chrisalbon · x · 2026-10-19
Chris Albon resurfaces Geoffrey Hinton's old claim that people should stop training radiologists because AI would replace them — comparing radiologists to a coyote already off the cliff who hasn't looked down — with the jab "thank god people didn't listen to him." A widely cited example of how short-term AI job-replacement predictions can badly miss.
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