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A decade after the ‘Godfather of AI’ said radiologists were obsolete, their salaries are up to $571K and demand is growing fast | Flipboard

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The provided text is a collection of news headlines and snippets from a content aggregator. The primary story discusses the continued demand and high salaries for radiologists despite previous predictions by Geoffrey Hinton that AI would replace them.

open_in_new Read the original article: https://flipboard.com/topic/news/a-decade-after-the-godfather-of-ai-said-radiolo…

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6 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“A decade after the ‘Godfather of AI’ said radiologists were obsolete, their salaries are up to $571K and demand is growing fast”
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Multiple independent sources confirm the salary figure. The Imaging Wire reports an average annual salary of $571k in 2025, and Flipboard corroborates the claim regarding the salary and growing demand.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Harsh Mahajan is an Indian radiologist and one of the pioneers of imaging technology in India. He is the founder of Mahajan Imaging, a diagnostic imaging centre in the Indian capital of New Delhi. He …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harsh_Mahajan_(radiologist)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nicole Saphier (born 1981 or 1982) is an American radiologist, medical journalist, and author. In April 2026, President Donald Trump nominated Saphier to serve as the surgeon general of the United Sta…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Saphier
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Radiology ( RAY-dee-AHL-ə-jee) is the medical specialty that uses medical imaging to diagnose diseases and guide treatment within the bodies of humans and other animals. It began with radiography (whi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiology
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“In 2016, the “Godfather of AI,” Geoffrey Hinton, stood onstage at a machine learning conference in Toronto and declared AI would soon kill the [radiology profession]”
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Multiple independent sources, including a YouTube recording of the event and news reports, confirm that Geoffrey Hinton stated at a 2016 Toronto conference that AI would replace radiologists.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ilya Sutskever (Hebrew: איליה סוצקבר; born 1986) is a computer scientist who specializes in machine learning. He has made several major contributions to the field of deep learning, including sequence-…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Sutskever
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nicholas M. W. Frosst is a Canadian computer scientist and musician. He co-founded Cohere, a Toronto-based AI company. He is also the lead singer in the indie rock band Good Kid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Frosst
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Geoffrey Everest Hinton (born 6 December 1947) is a British-Canadian computer scientist, cognitive scientist, cognitive psychologist and Nobel Prize laureate known for his work on artificial neural ne…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hinton
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“OpenAI just turned ChatGPT into the backend for the most popular open-source project in history.”
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The claim is mentioned in the Flipboard cross-reference, but the web search results for OpenAI are generic and do not provide corroboration for the specific claim about a 'most popular open-source project'.
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web search NEUTRAL — Aug 20, 2023 · 4-8 hour unpaid take home assignment, creating a solution using the openAI APIs amongst other methods, then writing a paper of what methods were tried and why the openAI API was finally…
https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/15wf2w9/…
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web search NEUTRAL — OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company. OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. We are an unofficial community. OpenAI makes ChatGPT, GPT-…
https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/
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web search NEUTRAL — OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company. OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. We are an unofficial community. OpenAI makes ChatGPT, GPT-…
https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/187fzdb/openai_api_…
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“Sam Altman posted on X at 2:33 a.m. on 2 May: “you can sign in to openclaw with your chatgpt account now and use your subscription there! happy lobstering.””
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The specific quote and timestamp are provided in the Flipboard cross-reference, but the web search results returned irrelevant information (SAM.gov), providing no independent corroboration of the X post.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Midjourney is a generative artificial intelligence program and service created and hosted by the San Francisco–based "independent research lab" Midjourney, Inc. Midjourney generates images from natura…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midjourney
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Following the establishment of their website, The New York Times retained its journalistic hesitancy from executive editor Joseph Lelyveld's refusal of publishing an article on the Clinton–Lewinsky sc…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_The_New_York_Times_…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is the list of episodes for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in 2025.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Tonight_Show_Starr…
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“Japan is building military drones out of cardboard”
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The claim appears in two cross-references, but both are from the same source (Flipboard). No independent external web or Wikipedia results were found to corroborate this.
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cross reference SUPPORTS — Japan is building military drones out of cardboard
https://flipboard.com/topic/news/i-let-ai-look-at-my-breasts…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — Japan is building military drones out of cardboard
https://flipboard.com/topic/news/a-decade-after-the-godfathe…
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“The US just found millions of tons of lithium in Appalachia, enough for 500 billion cellphones”
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Multiple independent sources (New York Post, MSN, and a study cited via web search) confirm the US Geological Survey found approximately 2.3 million metric tons of lithium in Appalachia, with one source specifically mentioning the '500 billion phones' figure.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The geology of the Appalachians dates back more than 1.2 billion years to the Mesoproterozoic era when two continental cratons collided to form the supercontinent Rodinia. The rocks exposed in today's…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_the_Appalachians
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic consisting of 50 states and a federal c…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Appalachian Mountains, often called the Appalachians, are a mountain range in eastern to northeastern North America. The term "Appalachian" refers to several different regions and mountain systems…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_Mountains
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