Why does the BBC continue to obfuscate and mislead people in their journalism about "AI" branded technologies? A Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) pipeline IS NOT "SURGICAL CHATGPT", as the bleeding obvious category committed by the BBC journalist proclaims.
MICCAI offers ML driven realtime diagnostic / evaluation. There's no freaking comparison. The root in the lede is the use of a deep-learning artificial neural network (DANN), not a generative pre-trained transformer (GPT). If there were a GPT-based large language model (LLM) involved in surgery I'd rather make an informed choice of possible death, quite frankly.
This is totally irresponsible and conveniently misrepresents what was actually employed and what was achieved. I wish they would stop doing this, it's disgusting, and I have withdrawn support of the BBC itself some time ago as all the tells of its co-option have been there since the late 2000s.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjwg5n7y68xo
(Oh wait, the NHS effort involved was co-funded by Google, and the current BBC Director-General is the former head of Google Europe. Not saying correlation implies causation at all. Not at all. la da da dee dee.... Officer Barbrady from South Park again)
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