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AI won’t replace radiologists, but it will dramatically change their jobs

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In 2016 Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel-winning “godfather of AI,” predicted that radiologists—the physicians who read X-rays, ultrasounds, and other images to help make medical diagnoses—would find themselves replaced by computers within five years. Today the field can retort by quoting Mark Twain’s famous quip: The report of my death was an exaggeration.