Everyone arguing about whether the Midjourney Scanner can replace an MRI or CT is missing the point. The reason it's reasonating so broadly, and especially with technologists, is that it could create a beautiful opportunity for The Bitter Lesson to get a foothold in healthcare. Almost all of our medical data has been totally bastardized by the way we capture and store it. The EHR is supposed to be a medical record, but it is really a billing system. Every patient encounter gets compressed into a lossy template or heuristic just to facilitate billing logic. The Bitter Lesson is simple. AI gets powerful when you feed it raw, unfiltered data and let learning, search, and compute to the work. Stop worrying about whether AI can sharpen the resolution of the ultrasonic tomography. If the images get prettier for human interpretation, that will just be a nice bonus. The actual goal should be to capture as much raw signal of a person's clinical state as possible. Connect that signal to similar measurement of future outcomes. Then let a model learn from that data with minimal imposition of human judgment or measurement. Start with the assumption that we don't even necessarily know what we're looking for. This is the way to actually do great medical science. I've watched this play out in endoscopy. As an example, historically we would take 15-20 minute colonoscopy videos of patients with ulcerative colitis and compress it down into a Mayo score of 0, 1, 2, or 3 based on the single worst moment of the entire video. So much data wasted just because we needed a human-digestible heuristic. It turns out if you instead capture all of that raw data and use it to train a self-supervised model, those embeddings can actually learn far more about a patient's disease state. So much more that they can actually predict treatment outcomes. This is why I'm personally fired up about the Midjourney Scanner. Don't think about it like an MRI or CT. Think of it as a beautiful fountain of human health data.