[lukeor]

Hi, I'm the author of the blogpost (didn't expect to see it here!) and I largely agree with you.

I think I would say that the use of private datasets isn't actually a problem though, the problem is that the methods and analysis in many of the papers is horribly flawed. I could reasonably trust a paper with good methodology - all of medical research is on private data essentially. But the majority is, as you say, pure hype.

I actually wrote another blog post a bit back that was popular on some simple rules to separate hype from reality in medical AI work - https://lukeoakdenrayner.wordpress.com/2016/11/27/do-compute...