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I’ve spent 30 years trying to harness AI to fight cancer. I’m dismayed by the AI pseudo-revolution

2025-08-05 08:32:27 英文原文

作者：Hamid Tizhoosh

Aug. 5, 2025

Tizhoosh is a professor of biomedical informatics, an AI researcher, inventor, and entrepreneur.

On a hot day in the summer of 1993, my academic supervisor handed me the seminal paper by David Rumelhart and Geoffrey Hinton and simply said, “Implement this!” At the time, we used programming languages like Modulo-2, Pascal, and occasionally ANSI C. But hardly anyone had heard of “backpropagation” — a learning mechanism for AI that, to this day, remains foundational for training artificial neural networks on complex tasks.

Around that same time, my grandfather passed away from lung cancer. A former prisoner of war, he had introduced me to both Eastern and Western philosophy, despite never having earned an academic degree.

So when I began my Ph.D. in 1996 in post-unification Germany, I knew exactly what I wanted to do: harness AI to fight cancer.

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摘要

Tizhoosh, a professor of biomedical informatics and AI researcher, recalls his introduction to backpropagation in 1993 during his academic studies. Inspired by his grandfather's battle with lung cancer, Tizhoosh pursued his Ph.D. in Germany in 1996 with the goal of using AI to combat cancer.

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