Researchers have taken photographs of children’s retinas and screened them using a deep learning AI algorithm to diagnose autism with 100% accuracy. The findings support using AI as an objective screening tool for early diagnosis, especially when access to a specialist child psychiatrist is limited.
  • sosodev@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    It sounds like the model is overfitting the training data. They say it scored 100% on the testing set of data which almost always indicates that the model has learned how to ace the training set but flops in the real world.

    I think we shouldn’t put much weight behind this news article. This is just more overblown hype for the sake of clicks.