[HN Gopher] The Pastry A.I. That Learned to Fight Cancer
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       The Pastry A.I. That Learned to Fight Cancer
        
       Author : jsomers
       Score  : 37 points
       Date   : 2021-03-25 23:22 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.newyorker.com)
        
       | joe_the_user wrote:
       | Wow,
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       | It's weird to have what seems like pretty big deal _technically_
       | be first described in a meandering New Yorker article.
       | 
       | This is a more-or-less hand-tune system apparently effectively
       | competing with deep learning systems (identifying cancer is far
       | from easy and not solved by deep learning at this point). As the
       | article says, by being person-created, the system has obvious
       | advantage in both explainability and users being able to
       | understand it's mistakes.
       | 
       | Of course, a broader look from experts is in order but I can't
       | see this as a strong demonstration of an alternative paradigm.
       | Now, the challenge is to automate the construction of systems of
       | this sort.
        
       | wizzwizz4 wrote:
       | I like the traditional approach. Training a brain to solve a
       | problem is all well and good, but with a BakeryScan-like system,
       | you can see _why_ , and change it if necessary. It's engineering,
       | rather than statistics.
        
         | nick__m wrote:
         | And I liked the complementarity at the end, were they used
         | deeplearning to virtually remove the cellophane so BakeryScan
         | could continue to identify the pastries.
        
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