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A decade-old CNN still beats frontier LLMs at skin cancer diagnosis

Original: A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis

A 2015-era convolutional neural network for classifying skin lesions has been shown to outperform today's leading large language models on skin cancer diagnosis tasks. The comparison, documented by the Lynch Lab, is drawing attention to how specialised medical models can still surpass general-purpose AI systems, raising questions about assumptions that newer, larger models are always better.

Why now: It challenges the current assumption that frontier LLMs supersede older specialised models, a striking result for the AI community.

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