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A decade after the ‘Godfather of AI’ said radiologists were obsolete, their salaries are up to $571K and demand is growing fast

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A decade after the ‘Godfather of AI’ said radiologists were obsolete, their salaries are up to $571K and demand is growing fast
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In 2016, the “Godfather of AI,” Geoffrey Hinton, stood onstage at a machine learning conference in Toronto and declared AI would soon kill the radiology profession.



At the time, he said people should even stop training new radiologists because it was “completely obvious” that within five years (or 10 at most) AI would do a better job than humans at the same tasks.



“If you work as a radiologist, you’re like the coyote that’s already over the edge of the cliff b

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