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AI tools can be both exciting and terrifying. Here’s how to use them without getting burned.
At one of her two St. John’s-area animal hospitals, veterinarian Dr. Lesley Steele aspirated a mass on a cat, then submitted the biopsy slide to a new AI-powered tool for analysis. Steele owns eight clinics across Atlantic Canada, and over the last couple of years, four of them had been providing slides to train an AI to help provide veterinary diagnoses. Now, Steele’s clinics were starting to use the tool with real-life patients.
The cat’s biopsy result showed cancer. And Steele thought it had to be wrong. “I’ve been practising for almost 28 years, and the result came back as a type of cancer that I have never seen in a cat before,” Steele said. She wondered if maybe the wrong slide had been submitted for diagnosis. But no, the sample was correct. Steele still didn’t trust the result and a human pathologist took a look—and confirmed the AI was right.
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