GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 beaten by a 10 year old CNN
A dermatologist compared these frontier LLMs against Inception v3, a CNN fine tuned for skin cancer diagnosis
A few interesting findings:
- 62.5% accuracy vs. ~42% for both LLMs
- The CNN was fine-tuned in just 20 minutes on an H100
- All three models struggled to identify melanomas
- Higher accuracy didn’t necessarily mean safer clinical decisions
It’s a small experiment, but a good reminder that bigger, general purpose models aren’t always the best tool for specialized tasks
Full study:
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