At correctly diagnosing patients, too -- at least for some ailments. The common objection against this evidence is "sure, it happened to work there, but it won

At correctly diagnosing patients, too -- at least for some ailments. The common objection against this evidence is "sure, it happened to work there, but it won't work in this case!" And of course, it's very hard to defend this research against an accusation like that. However, it's been a remarkable stable result whenever it is tried for a new task, so I guess what I'm saying is that I like to stay open to simple algorithms making better decisions than humans. Not because the algorithms are good (linear models with random weights are not very good) but because humans are incredibly fallible.