What is OpenAI doing with cancer screening?
Comment on OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman
N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
There’s an alternate timeline where the non-profit side of the company won, Altman the Conman was booted and exposed, and OpenAI kept developing machine learning in a way that actually benefits actual use cases.
Cancer screenings approved by a doctor could be accurate enough to save so many lives and so much suffering through early detection.
Instead, Altman turned a promising technology into a meme stock with a product released too early to ever fix properly.
msage@programming.dev 1 day ago
mustbe3to20signs@feddit.org 1 day ago
AI models can outmatch most oncologists and radiologists in recognition of early tumor stages in MRI and CT scans.
Further developing this strength could lead to earlier diagnosis with less-invasive methods saving not only countless live and prolonging the remaining quality life time for the individual but also save a shit ton of money.T156@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That is a different kind of machine learning model, though.
You can’t just plug in your pathology images into their multimodal generative models, and expect it to pop out something usable.
And those image recognition models aren’t something OpenAI is currently working on, iirc.
mustbe3to20signs@feddit.org 1 day ago
I’m fully aware that those are different machine learning models but instead of focussing on LLMs with only limited use for mankind, advancing on Image Recognition models would have been much better.
tfowinder@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
Not only that, image analysis and statistical guesses have always been around and do not need ML to work. It’s just one more tool in the toolbox.
Petter1@lemm.ee 21 hours ago
Fun thing is, most of the things AI can, they never planned it to be able to do it. All they tried to achieve was a sentence completion tool.
msage@programming.dev 22 hours ago
Wasn’t it proven that AI was having amazing results, because it noticed the cancer screens had doctors signature at the bottom? Or did they make another run with signatures hidden?
mustbe3to20signs@feddit.org 21 hours ago
There were more than one system proven to “cheat” through biased training materials. One model used to tell duck and chicken apart because it was trained with pictures of ducks in the water and chicken on a sandy ground, if I remember correctly.
Since multiple multiple image recognition systems are in development, I can’t imagine they’re all this faulty.
Petter1@lemm.ee 21 hours ago
Or we get to a time where we send a reprogrammed terminator back in time to kill altman 🤓
patatahooligan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No, there isn’t really any such alternate timeline. Good honest causes are not profitable enough to survive against the startup scams. Even if the non-profit side won internally, OpenAI would just be left behind, funding would go to its competitors, and OpenAI would shut down. Unless you mean a radically different alternate timeline where our economic system is fundamentally different.
rsuri@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I mean wikipedia managed to do it. It just requires honest people to retain control long enough. I think it was allowed to happen in wikipedia’s case because the wealthiest/greediest people hadn’t caught on to the potential yet.
Petter1@lemm.ee 21 hours ago
There are infinite timelines, so, it has to exist some(wehere/when/[insert w word for additional dimension]).