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Re: Midjourney Medical

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Post by nonethewiser »

devmor wrote: post #69
nonethewiser wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> can’t help but suspect they’ve fallen into deep LLM psychosis What do you mean here? The idea came from LLMs? They built this with LLMs?

They are probably referring to the very real and unfortunate phenomenon wherein people use LLMs as sounding boards without consulting other humans, current frontier LLMs being heavily sycophantic in their responses. This tends to create a feedback loop where unsound ideas are amplified.

So the idea is Midjourney uses LLMs as a sounding board and came up with this idea?

Re: Midjourney Medical

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Post by ElProlactin »

rich_sasha wrote: post #40
cglan wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

is it not similar? taking raw data, some vector of data and constructing a visual image

There's deterministic algos for it and have existed for ages. Medical imaging is literally the last of the last places where you want to hallucinate a tiny little blob.

> Medical imaging is literally the last of the last places where you want to hallucinate a tiny little blob.

Where's your sense of fun and adventure? /s

Re: Midjourney Medical

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Post by oliyoung »

jawns wrote: post #97
themantalope wrote: post #34

radiologist here - example images don't look great

I'm scratching my head about why they would venture into an entirely different field like this, one with tremendous regulatory hurdles, if they know (and surely they must know) that radiologists are going to pan the results. It's like if LeBron announced he was switching to bowling and was going to revolutionize the sport, then rolled a gutter ball.

> I'm scratching my head about why they would venture into an entirely different field like this

Never underestimate the audacity of a software engineer with a new toy

> It's like if LeBron announced he was switching to bowling and was going to revolutionize the sport, then rolled a gutter ball.

Well, if you replace LeBron with Jordan, and Bowling with Baseball ..

Re: Midjourney Medical

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Post by arcticbull »

999900000999 wrote: post #122
maz1b wrote: post #90

I had to check the date after seeing the headline, and again after opening the page. Thought it was April Fools. Regardless, as a doctor and full stack engineer, I'm looking forward to learning more about their methodologies, their approaches, but I don't think this is going to be displacing MRIs or remotely close, based off the cursory initial glance. If their vision is to be able to provide end users with more acti…

Is the idea to use AI magic to detect cancer and other bad things? I could imagine this getting cheap enough that your local gym has one and you get checked once every 3 months. Curing cancer is one of the only things I’d take a pay cut to do.

Bayes theorem mostly. False positives rates are extremely important. I mean so are false negatives. So just, like, accuracy.

Re: Midjourney Medical

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Post by jdw64 »

ajyoon wrote: post #126
jdw64 wrote: post #39

Why is everyone so negative about this? Getting a CT or X-ray and then having AI do early screening on cases that doctors can pass along doesn't seem like a bad idea to me.

People are responding negatively to what looks very much like vaporware from a company stepping way outside its domain into medical imaging with a bizarrely positioned announcement post. Medical imaging is a very active field of research with many brilliant minds working on it. If this were truly an MRI killer, they would not be announcing it as a spa.

When I think of 'YAMAHA's case, I believe they can fully realize their own ideas. These people are mainly experts in image-related fields, right? And we're talking about image AI—which, in practice, needs to recognize the characteristics of objects—so it seems to me that it's a fairly relevant field. But since you're more of an expert than I am, your opinion probably carries more weight.

Re: Midjourney Medical

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Post by jrflowers »

sberens wrote: post #127
EduardLev wrote: post #101

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great, just confirm you also have >>$200MM revenue[0] and have also previously founded a hard tech startup! [0] https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/midjourney-revenue-...

Exactly. Don’t even try to get into medical imaging until you’ve made a heap of cash off a Discord waifu image bot
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