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Statisticians in medical domains are typically interested in inferring whether a person has a disease from test results.
Alexander Mattick · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sept 2026
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“And that is what like the statisticians people are usually interested in. And it's a big divide between someone who does like statistics and like let's say the medical domain.”
“who actually wants to figure out given those tests where in AI could you have a disease compared to someone in deep learning who just cares about hey I want to generate pretty images of I don't know pink elephants”Play from 17:08Report a misattribution
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