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Friendly reminder, Hinton is the same guy who told us this: 'We should stop training radiologists now. It's just completely obvious that wit…
Friendly reminder, Hinton is the same guy who told us this: 'We should stop training radiologists now. It's just completely obvious that within five years, deep learning is going to do better than rad
Friendly reminder, Hinton is the same guy who told us this: "We should stop training radiologists now. It's just completely obvious that within five years, deep learning is going to do better than radiologists.". That was six year ago. He was right about the AI. Wrong about the job. AI already reads scans better than any human. Six years after this nonsense prediction we have more radiologists. That's because Hinton and many others just fundamentally misunderstand that tasks are not jobs and that the job of a radiologist is also interacting with patients, being a light in darkness, providing hope and warmth and care and a thousand other things. Again we need to stop listening to these folks. I cannot say it enough, just because this fellow is brilliant with AI does not mean he has any clue how it will impact society. None. Zero. Geoffrey Hinton on AI's job loss: History’s tech revolutions replaced one job with another. e.g. Tractors replaced farm jobs with factories & office jobs. But AI will break that cycle, because AI can replace both physical+intellectual labor.
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Source: Yann LeCun (X) | 2026-04-20