Radiology resident thumbs nose at Nobel Prize winner who predicted specialty would become obsolete

Radiology Business October 28, 2024
Marty Stempniak

A University of California Davis radiology resident is criticizing the Nobel Prize winner who predicted AI would render the specialty obsolete by 2021.

Geoffrey Hinton, the 76-year-old “Godfather of AI,” famously forecasted in 2o16 that advances in AI would take over radiologists’ duties within five years. Eight years later, the prediction has proven false and now the specialty faces a “historic labor shortage,” Arjun Byju, MD, wrote for the New Republic Friday.

Now in his second year of residency at UCI, Byju was a junior in college when Hinton suggested that medical schools should immediately stop training radiology residents because “we’ve got plenty already.”

“Eight years have passed, and Hinton’s prophecy clearly did not come true; deep...

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