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Surprise! People don't want AI deciding who gets a kidney transplant and who dies or endures years of misery (www.theregister.com)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I believe a good doctor, properly focused, will outperform an AI. AI are also still prone to hallucinations, which is extremely bad in medicine. Where they win is against a tired, overworked doctor with too much on his plate.

Where it is useful is as a supplement. An AI can put a lot of seemingly innocuous information together to spot more unusual problems. Rarer conditions can be missed, particularly if they share symptoms with more common problems. An AI that can flag possibilities for the doctor to investigate would be extremely useful.

An AI diagnostic system is a tool for doctors to use, not a replacement.

[–] stevedice 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Studies have also shown that doctors using AI don't do better than just doctors but AI on its own does. Although, that one is attributed to the doctors not knowing how to use chatgpt.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Do you have a link to that study? I'd be interested to see what the false positive/negative rates were. Those are the big danger of LLMs being used, and why a trained doctor would be needed.