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by kspacewalk2 1303 days ago
It makes sense to have a domain expert and an AI expert working together, but I'd offer two important modifications:

1) The AI expert is auxiliary here, and the domain expert is in the driver's seat. How can it be otherwise? You no more put the AI expert in charge than you'd put an electronic health record IT specialist in charge of the hospital's processes. The relationship needs to be outcome-focused, not technology-focused.

2) The end result is most likely to be a productivity tool which augments the abilities/accuracy/speed of human experts rather than replacing them. AGI being not that sciencey of a fiction, we aren't likely to be actually diagnosed by an AI radiologist in our lifetimes, nor will an AI scientist make an important scientific discovery. Ditch the hype and get to work on those productivity tools, because that's all you can do for the foreseeable future. That might seem like a disappointing reduction in ambition, but at least it's reality-based.