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“A ten-year-old network, fine-tuned for about twenty minutes, beat both of them at recognising skin cancer.”

Dr Magnus Lynchlynchlab.net ↗

The old CNN got 62% of 200 biopsy-proven lesions right. GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 both managed 42%. Twenty minutes of fine-tuning on a 2015 model beat billions in training spend. Remember that the next time someone pitches a chatbot as your dermatologist.