Scientists Have No Idea How AI Predicted Breast Cancer Risk
While news about clever chatbots, image generators, and supposedly deadly bots dominate discourse around artificial intelligence, it can also be incredibly helpful—especially when used as a tool with plenty of human oversight. In fact, it can even be used to help predict the most common form of cancers in the world.
A multi-university team of U.S. researchers published a study Tuesday in the journal Radiology that found that AI was able to outperform the standard clinical risk model for predicting the five-year risk of breast cancer in a study of thousands of mammograms. The authors believe that the findings could lead to faster and more accurate cancer diagnoses in the future.
That’s great news of course, with one shocking wrinkle: The researchers are not entirely sure how the AI was able to do it.