It’s the new Captcha! “please identify which of these sounds is a COVID-19 cough”. More seriously, I think your fundamental premise is incorrect.
People are really smart
Umm, no. People have very wide domains of talent and learning, and are insanely flexible in how they can generalize (sometimes even usefully) and apply models across domains. They’re strictly worse than computers in precision and cost at narrow, well-defined classification tasks.
If this replicates, I expect diagnose-by-phone to become a thing. But it won’t be humans doing most of it (it may include human experts for annotation and data prep).
It’s the new Captcha! “please identify which of these sounds is a COVID-19 cough”. More seriously, I think your fundamental premise is incorrect.
Umm, no. People have very wide domains of talent and learning, and are insanely flexible in how they can generalize (sometimes even usefully) and apply models across domains. They’re strictly worse than computers in precision and cost at narrow, well-defined classification tasks.
If this replicates, I expect diagnose-by-phone to become a thing. But it won’t be humans doing most of it (it may include human experts for annotation and data prep).