It's what people do when you tell them: Look I have an algorithm that can do your job. It's the first thing you learn not to do when working in machine learning. For example I was working in Digital Pathology, no Pathologist will ever believe you when you say an algorithm can do their job better (maybe there are some exceptions). Even if you show them that they never agree on anything, not even with themselves from last week, they keep believing they are the correct one. It's human I guess.

This is pretty much every human in every industry that's been replaced by machines in pretty much forever.

And if there are some exceptions, we'll it will probably be plumbers.

I once got to witness a very talented doctor being pitched the idea that AI can detect things like tumors in medical imaging.

They didn’t use the same words but the emotion was quite similar.

And now we all know AI does a better job than doctors at medical imaging. I wonder how he feels about it now.

“It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it”

When pitching an AI/tech product, choose the people you pitch to carefully. You’ll probably have a hard time selling to those you want to replace.

It's not the same. The medical profession is highly credentialized and regulated with several moats giving them insane bargaining power on who gets to decide what.

Pretty sure radiologists have their jobs secured for life regardless of the progress of AI image recognition. At least in Europe.

Most likely AI will be used as a tool, but the radiologist will have to sign off on the final verdict/diagnosis.

This is very true, but regulation/moats can’t stop progress indefinitely, and I think deep down even medical professionals understand this, which is why he reacted the way he did.

I could tell he was personally offended by the fact that some young computer nerd who knows nothing about medicine, can even suggest the idea that his decades worth of experience aren’t as good as a computer program.

> I define the quality of the art by the emotions it evoques in me

He seems to not like it for that reason. The developers call the movement creepy and he basically says they can do creepy if they want, he doesn't.They also say their model doesn't understand pain and the movements reflect it, which he counters with an anecdote about disabled people he knows and how their muscles strain doing otherwise normal things and how not understanding pain is a problem.

It almost seems like they had no idea who they where trying to impress with their tech demo. I am far from an expert on his works but I don't see "creepy zombie animations" fitting in with any of his works.