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What makes you think ML will help with diagnosing unusual cases? If anything I would expect ML to make that problem worse, not better.
by noelsusman 7y ago
What makes you think ML will help with diagnosing unusual cases? If anything I would expect ML to make that problem worse, not better.
- missosoup 7y agoML is already helping diagnose unusual cases. The reason it's unquestionably better than humans is because it's not possible for humans to be aware of every recorded case of every recorded disease and the various ways it presents itself. But as long as data capture capability exists, an ML model can be updated to incorporate all that knowledge on a regular basis. The second element of this is that the vast majority of doctors just follow a primitive flowchart to diagnose conditions. It's not like Dr House where they're experts on human anatomy and drug interactions etc. GPs are better compared to phone customer service reps running through a script. ML is better than that.