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In the situation you describe humans fail constantly. My experience with the medical system has decidedly not been that magically competent back office people c
by modeless 3y ago
In the situation you describe humans fail constantly. My experience with the medical system has decidedly not been that magically competent back office people call every office you've ever visited to assemble your complete medical history from scraps and effectively organize it for the doctor. It's a constant game of telephone where you have to do most of the work yourself, calling around and giving instructions to receptionists to give to other people to get this stuff done. They can't even communicate reliably between the nurses and doctors in the same damn office to avoid asking the same questions multiple times every time you visit.
What you describe, if it worked reliably, would be an advance over current human-level average performance. And AI will absolutely be able to do it, too. Probably within ten years, though it will take longer to deploy after the capabilities are there.
- dogmatism 3y agoNo, you’re right, it doesn’t work reliably I just think the y combinator crowd underestimates the human obstacles and ancient tech in the path of getting AI implemented
- staunton 3y agoThat only concerns the time needed to implement it though, not capabilities. If an AI is known to be significantly better at diagnosing than your GP, and you know and believe this (this of course has yet to happen and then take time to be noticed by people), then you will use it. You will demand it is used. People actually care about their health.