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46 a situation it ’ s not familiar with it can fail in weird and wonderful ways ” he says . “ The best way to deal with that is to have a robust safety system in place , to look at how it works and more importantly how it can fail . Fundamentally there shouldn ’ t be any AI systems making decisions instead of a human at the moment , they are far more useful for pointing out things that are important .”
It ’ s a fantastic tool for classifying , he says . For instance AI can be trained to tell between a “ normal ” chest x-ray and one with abnormalities . “ The AI system can separate all the normal x-rays into one pile so we know they ’ re not urgent , and while we ’ ll look at them eventually but it means we can focus on the ones the AI system says are abnormal .”
“ What they ’ re so far not so good at is telling us exactly what it is that ’ s abnormal , why it ’ s abnormal and what we need to do about it . But in terms of simple classification it can really help to prioritise our work . If you ’ re directing humans to where they can be most useful , that aspect of helping you prioritise is a brilliant use of AI , and will hopefully save the NHS a lot of time .”
In terms of adoption across the UK ’ s huge , centralised healthcare network ,
JANUARY 2021