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Microsoft Says Its New AI Diagnosed Patients 4 Times More Accurately Than Human Doctors (microsoft.ai)

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The Microsoft AI team shares research that demonstrates how AI can sequentially investigate and solve medicine’s most complex diagnostic challenges—cases that expert physicians struggle to answer.

Benchmarked against real-world case records published each week in the New England Journal of Medicine, we show that the Microsoft AI Diagnostic Orchestrator (MAI-DxO) correctly diagnoses up to 85% of NEJM case proceedings, a rate more than four times higher than a group of experienced physicians. MAI-DxO also gets to the correct diagnosis more cost-effectively than physicians.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

more accurate.

Until it’s not…then what. Who’s liable? Google…Amazon …Microsoft …chatgpt… Look, I like ai because it’s fun to make stupid memes and pictures without any effort but I do not trust this nonsense to do ANYTHING with accuracy especially my medical.

The doctor who review the case, maybe ?
In some cases the AI can effectively "see" things a doctor can miss and direct him to check for a particular disease. Even if the AI is only able to rule out some cases it would be usefull.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

The doctor who review the case, maybe ?

Yeah that's why these gains in "efficiency" are completely imaginary.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

The AI only needs to alert the doctor that something is off and should be tested for. It does not replace doctors, but augments them. It's actually a great use for AI, it's just not what we think of as AI in a post-LLM world. The medically useful AI is pattern recognition. LLMs may also help doctors if they need a starting point into researching something weird and obscure, but ChatGPT isn't being used for diagnosing patients, nor is anything any AI says the "final verdict". It's just a tool to improve early detection of disorders, or it might point someone towards an useful article or book.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Only if you don't have the critical thinking to understand how information management is a significant problem and barrier to medical care.

Being able to research and find material relevant to a patient's problem is an arduous task that often is too high a barrier for doctors to invest in given their regular workloads.

Which leads to a reduction in effective care.

By providing a more efficient and effective way to dig up information that saves a ton of time and improves care.

It's still up to the doctor to evaluate that information, but now they're not slogging away trying to find it.