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[–] [email protected] 127 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (22 children)

Using AI for anomaly detection is nothing new though. Haven't read any article about this specific 'discovery' but usually this uses a completely different technique than the AI that comes to mind when people think of AI these days.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 3 months ago (16 children)

That's why I hate the term AI. Say it is a predictive llm or a pattern recognition model.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Say it is a predictive llm

According to the paper cited by the article OP posted, there is no LLM in the model. If I read it correctly, the paper says that it uses PyTorch's implementation of ResNet18, a deep convolutional neural network that isn't specifically designed to work on text. So this term would be inaccurate.

or a pattern recognition model.

Much better term IMO, especially since it uses a convolutional network. But since the article is a news publication, not a serious academic paper, the author knows the term "AI" gets clicks and positive impressions (which is what their job actually is) and we wouldn't be here talking about it.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That performance curve seems terrible for any practical use.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

Yeah that's an unacceptably low ROC curve for a medical usecase

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Good catch!

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