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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] -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I know that I might be the only Lemmy user happy with this, but AI applications in the medical field seems very promising for lowering costs and being more accurate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Instead of lowering costs, remove capitalism and make doctors actually care about health rather than their paycheck and everything will work much better than a stupid AI.

As for accuracy, that's bullshit, you cannot measure medical success through the metric of valid diagnostics. A doctor is supposed to give a diagnosis that is reasonable based on a context ; an AI will try to find the answer that seems the most "likely" according to some data without any understanding of the context or risks.

This shit is really the same crap that happened with people eating radioactive crap thinking it would make them stay healthy, simply because it was the new cool tech. The difference being that radioactivity is a physical concept independent from human bullshit, while AIs are made by stupid humans, for stupid users, using human stupidity as its only source of information. It exacerbates the worst of humanity and frankly, isn't developed enough (and society isn't developed enough) to have a real use.