haha this a project my current Ph.D. advisor worked on (he's the lead author of that study).

He likes to say AI=avian intelligence...

Specialized tasks requiring training for which we use machines could be performed by available brains previously not thought capable. Genius. One of the most genial ideas I have met in a long time.

Actual article (2015): https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

That's got to be a tough pill to swallow for a radiologist. Getting beat by a massive computing capability built over decades through millions of hours of applied human science and engineering is one thing, but a bird brain?

Pretty incredible. I wonder if you forced a radiologist to make a decision within a second or two if it would improve their scores...allowing them to rely on the instinct they've developed vs the cognitive wet blanket that factors in all of the externalities of making a decision.

Very confused. I heard about the pigeon net in rfc, when in good old day they sometimes could have fun. But cancer spotting.

Really not fake … ???

C'mon. Everyone knows than pigeons don't scale ;-)