> "An AI and a pair of human doctors were each given the same standard electronic health record to read" This is handicapping the human doctors abilities. There is a lot more information a human doctor can gather even with a brief observation of the patient.
They have covered this in the article. > But it is not curtains for emergency doctors yet, the researchers said. The study only tested humans against AIs looking at patient data that can be communicated via text. The AI’s reading of signals, such as the patient’s level of distress and their visual appearance, were not tested. That means the AI was performing more like a clinician producing a second opinion based on p…
That actually seems like a good application – automatically get a quick AI second opinion for everything; if it's dissenting the first/human medic can re-review, or comment why it's slop, or get a third/second-human opinion.
(I'm assuming most cases would be You're absolutely right, that's an astute diagnosis.)