So says this NYT headline (gift link). In reality, and in the article itself:
The tool might also be more useful for trainee doctors than for experienced specialists, said Dr. Diane Simeone, a pancreatic surgeon at the University of California San Diego. Some of the tumors that the tool caught in the Nature Medicine study should have been “super obvious” to well-trained radiologists even without A.I., she said.
But she acknowledged that it could be a valuable backstop for hospitals where specialists are in short supply.
This is based on the data So yes, A.I. is finding deadly tumors that an overworked and/or undertrained doctor might miss. Which is valuable, but a different message altogether from the one that the headline was trying to convey.
Separately, is “in China” becoming the new “in mice”? The link is to a PLOS One blog from 2021. The most recent post there as of the time of my writing this is a scathing and rather unfair review of the science of Pluribus. I refrained from adding it to my feed reader. What assumptions do writers have, and what emotions do they raise in readers, when they report about things happening “in China”? Was it the same with the Soviet Union? Whenever someone fans the flames of mimetic rivalry, I grab my wallet.