Thread by @lpachter

A few months ago @AndrewYNg tweeted that radiologists were on the verge of being obsolete because AI:

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. Andrew has >300K twitter followers so his tweet made the rounds (>2,000 likes) /1

Some postdoc called him out on what was obviously an outrageous statement:

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. This picked up a paltry 9 likes. /2

Now today more data comes out: stanfordmlgroup.github.io/competitions/m… Guess what… the “deep learning” method sucks. It’s much worse than the radiologists. No way @AndrewYNg is trusting his own diagnoses to this algorithm. /3

You know what else sucks? When high profile machine learning people oversell their results to the public. It leaves everyone worse off… because how can us mere mortals publish a paper if we haven’t rendered an entire profession obsolete with our results? /4

And how can the public trust scientists if time and time again they are presented with hype instead of science? /5

Earlier this year Michael Jordan wrote a really great essay about AI that his former trainee, @AndrewYNg, really ought to read:
medium.com/@mijordan3/art…
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P.S. here's a really good twitter account to follow: that postdoc I mentioned (@hjpimentel). He knows what he is talking about. /∎