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Researchers at Mass General Brigham in Boston have developed artificial intelligence models that they say can predict a cancer patient's biological age and chances of survival using nothing more than a single photograph of their face. https://cnn.it/4i5ERBv

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Ah, the pesky fine print; “It has not shown that these predictions add clinically useful information beyond doctors’ assessments of a patient’s general health and fitness, which were not measured in the study,” he said. “This is a promising proof of concept, but it is not ready for clinical use."

cdpositive.bsky.social “It has not shown that these predictions add clinically useful information beyond doctors’ assessments of a patient’s general health and fitness, which were not measured in the study,” he said. “This is a promising proof of concept, but it is not ready for clinical use."

Right. AI can't be trusted to do the most basic of problems, but we're gonna trust it to judge if we have cancer or not. I'd rather let a cancer-sniffing dog try his luck before AI.