Author: Ilya Ferapontov

The current AI boom has caused many people to worry about losing their jobs, though not to the same extent. In some cases, respected professionals and real scientists have made convincing predictions that “machines will steal your job.” These professions can be seen as canaries in a coal mine, warning of impending change. One such profession is radiology. According to machine learning experts, machines should have taken over this job a long time ago. Yet, oddly enough, they have not been able to do so. This makes the case of radiologists worthy of detailed study and extremely interesting for anyone concerned about the threats of automation.

In April of this year, a group of Toshiba researchers published a landmark article in Nature that may have escaped the attention of our readers. In the article, the engineers and physicists demonstrated how quantum communication could be established between different cities using existing optical network infrastructure. Until now, quantum messages could only be transmitted via special, expensive, and labor-intensive networks. In fact, the “quantum internet” existed primarily on university campuses.