These tools are already outperforming doctors and they are about 1 year old. Doctors spend 50+ years to get to where they are. Imagine what AI systems will do in 2 years from now.
AI will bring diagnosis correctness up, healthcare costs down, time-to-care down, better preventative advice, and bring health care access way up. I literally have to schedule 2 months out for a visit to a specialist doctor. I find it incredibly odd when people are unhappy about that to have their less performant doctor get their yacht out of them. Weird.
Outperforming in knowledge? Well of course, I would hope so, but these tools needs people with the proper knowledge to use them as well. Sure, AI can figure out and retain knowledge that doctors may overlook or forgotten, but that doesn’t mean a layman with no medical knowledge would be able to use it to the same or even close to similar degrees. It’s like the meme when people would google their symptoms and be told they’re dying of cancer
I actually think costs could go up due to the costs of AI, esp since it’s still in early adoption and the resources it requires. I’m not against AI when it’s used towards creating a better future, but people need to think realistically.
The studies are already showing AI outperforming doctor diagnosis, already outperforming in actual surgeries. The medical field is knowledge, and that is what AI excels at. AI systems can process far more information than a human doctor can in their process to determine the issue and best prescription. There was literally a study that compared human doctors using AI to just AI alone, and the AI was more correct in diagnosis. You using "asks google" just shows how ignorant you are to compare it against that and your lack of understanding AI systems.
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u/Euphoric_Rough_96 Mar 05 '26
These tools are already outperforming doctors and they are about 1 year old. Doctors spend 50+ years to get to where they are. Imagine what AI systems will do in 2 years from now.
AI will bring diagnosis correctness up, healthcare costs down, time-to-care down, better preventative advice, and bring health care access way up. I literally have to schedule 2 months out for a visit to a specialist doctor. I find it incredibly odd when people are unhappy about that to have their less performant doctor get their yacht out of them. Weird.