Superhuman AI sounds like an oxymoron
It's accurate, though.
superhuman: being above the human
If you want to interpret it like that, every useful invention made by humans is superhuman.
Look at that superhuman wrench!
I think it's fair. An excavator gives us superhuman strength, a train gives us superhuman speed and this system gives us a superhuman ability to spot heart disease. And a wrench gives us superhuman bolt-tightening abilities lol.
Though calling it a "superhuman AI" implies it being better than humans in general, which is definitely not the case (just like with your wrench), so the headline is definitely not accurate and intuitive either.
My superhuman car is faster than me
You aren't capable of doing what your car does, though.
moving from one place to another? Yes, I am capable of that. Transporting some object while moving? I am also capable of that. Yet my car can move faster than me and carry more than me. Therefore it has superhuman transportation capability.
Is your car also superhorse?
Sounds like Marvel to me.
But it cannot detect heart disease. That requires an echocardiogram, a type of ultrasound scan, which patients often have to wait months for.
Now a team have developed an AI tool that can spot signs of heart failure and heart valve disease – two of the most common forms of heart disease – from ECG results in “the blink of an eye”.
The tech cannot be used on its own to definitively diagnose or rule out heart failure or heart valve disease, but it gives a very strong indication someone may have them.
Someone judged as highly likely to have either could be sent rapidly for an echocardiogram, rather than wait months on the standard waiting lists. That could mean a quicker diagnosis which would enable them to start treatment earlier.
Maybe it's just pessimistic of me but I could also see this being used to make it harder to actually get the definitive test if the AI doesn't notice your heart problems on the first pass, like the insurance won't approve it or something like that
like the insurance won't approve it or something like that
That's the part that's broken, not the concerns that you might get false negatives.
In any case, I would hope that the system would return "results inconclusive" rather than a hard no, prompting you to be put in the queue for normal diagnostics.
Ai tool isn't a proof, so this cannot be used in definitive tests. The absence of something is not proof it isn't there, you just didn't found it. On the other side, it cannot proof you have an issue, it can just find signs of, so a real doctor have to look into it for proof. I do not think this can be used for insurance, even if the tool was quiet accurate in finding signs.
Yeah, like insurance companies give a shit. They will deny millions of people access with this result. They will use the savings to then pay lawyers to smother anyone who tries to fight it.
I don't think this is legal to do so, at least here in Europe/Germany.
They already do that, though.
BREAKING NEWS: Computer used to analyse data
people have infinite capacity to trivialize any advancement I guess
~~Most experienced humans don't need longer than that as well.~~
My point is it's not relevant how fast it is but how accurate.
Edit: I thought it's about heart attacks
One of a few acceptable uses for AI.
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