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.
  • @sosodevEnglish
    56•6 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.

    • LostXOR
      9•6 months ago

      The article says they kept 15% of the data for testing, so it’s not overfitting. I’m still skeptical though.

      • @sosodevEnglish
        8•6 months ago

        I’m pretty sure it’s possible to overfit even with large testing sets.