A standard way to justify lying chatbots is to talk about AI for medicine. So let’s point the AI at cancer. Radiotherapy treats cancer by zapping the tumour with radiation beams. In contouring, you…
  • haverholm@kbin.earth
    8·
    8 days ago

    Wait, didn’t Starmer and co want to “AI” everything like last week? I thought the UK were going to be world leaders in “AI”.

    Oh snap yeah, they’re broke.

  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    6·
    7 days ago

    A problem with “AI” is that, even if it works, it’s still technology under capitalism and thus endlessly appropriated for exploitation, abuse, profiteering, privilege, etc.

  • ThefuzzyFurryComrade@pawb.social
    4·
    7 days ago

    At first I honestly thought that this was an April Fools joke, I cannot fucking believe that this is real.

    In May 2024, the previous government authorised £15 million over three years for auto-contouring. NHS trusts started installing these systems assuming the funding was secured.

    There’s a shortage of radiotherapists. They say the AI systems are just letting them keep up with the workload. Radiotherapy UK says cutting auto-contouring will add 500,000 patient-days to waiting lists.

    I am completely speechless.