There really are some things AI can do better than humans, like sift through a vast data base like the modern catalogues of diseases, compare the information to a patient’s symptoms, and make an appropriate diagnosis. From el gato malo at boriquagato.substack.com:
the digital doctor is in
5 years from now if you tell your friends “i went to a human doctor to diagnose my illness,” they will literally ask you “why, could you not find a ouija board?”
medicine is precisely the sort of bounded field with measurable outcomes and complex inputs where human cognition is simply not that good and where AI can excel.
and it’s coming.
fast.
for comparison, median human scores on the USMLE test used here are typically 230-245. 300 is a perfect score so that implies a ~77-82% range. no human has ever hit 300.
it’s quite a comprehensive test that includes decision making and medical inference, not just factual knowledge. you can see more about it and the methodology above HERE.
humans are programmed not to like this.
I love data collation but to each his own.
Could AI be any worse than comrade doctor fresh out of Marxist U?
Depends on who programmed it.