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🤔 Call me a skeptic.

The drivers of this algorithm are alcohol use, drug use, and particularly smoking, which is highly correlated with alcohol and drug use. So it seems to be detecting smokers. Which is a first step, but does it add a lot to existing clinical practice?

Beyond Theranos level fraud

“It’s a new AI tool that can predict cancer survival with a single patient selfie”

Wow, such a cogent argument. And you read extremely fast!

I would be interested in feeding the foundation model some selfies of mine.

Blocked that idiot. Thanks for posting the Lancet journal. For me, this is exactly what AI would be beneficial for humanity.

No

I’m sure ai can be a v good tool (eg as a diagnostic tool able to analysè lots of data quickly). But this article did not make clear to me what any of them are. It seemed to hint at ai being a useful means for withholding treatment - which may be justifiable, but caution needed, surely?

That's not at all what the article or the paper is claiming. Have you actually even read the abstract?

Bro just use more than one selfie. They're super cheap. I'll send you a hundred selfies and then you should be able to know for sure if I'll beat cancer

Maybe n=40M does the job?

This is just some statistics. How will that kill us?

Bb-bbb-bb-bBBB-BULLSHIT !!!

So can I!!!

I think every single paper ever published has the “while this might be useful, more research is needed to make it more useful or determine how useful it is in practice”

Why do you say that?

The AI will tell people: "you're not hot enough. sorry. go die."

www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-of...

Nothing about their 'visage' provides clues as to their vulnerability. Most appeared outwardly healthy during the period of time I've known them until the radiotherapy & chemotherapy commenced.

no.

bullshit. shame on you, Guardian

Sounds like bollocks to me.

can it check my balls

Trademark: Elizabeth Holmes

Sounds like some Elizabeth Holmes bs.

Different AI. Not LLMs or any GenAI. Just good old fashioned machine learning based on sound mathematical principles. If only the LLM companies weren't hoovering up all the investment money, we'd have more of this.

This is so deep into Theranos territory even their eyeballs are brown

This is a "breakthrough" algorithm that predicts... mortality increasing with age and unhealthy look. What an advancement of science! Curious that it got even a brief mention in The Guardian though, my expectations were higher.

Is there anything this wonderful product can't do? What a load of bs...