Eric Topol Discusses AI Snake Oil

In a podcast interview, Eric Topol meets with the authors of AI Snake Oil—A New Book by 2 Princeton University Computer Scientists

AI SNAKE OIL and it’s Sayash Kapoor who has written this book with Arvind Narayanan of Princeton

The authors negatively portray many/most of the medical applications you hear about today. A review of COVID-predicting apps shows that few, if any were clinically useful. Heavily promoted apps for sepsis or pneumonia prediction similarly turned out to be useless on closer inspection.

• Predictive AI will never work
• Generative AI is more interesting
• Content moderation always requires a human in the loop