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How do you verify that a better diagnosis was made? With human doctors? But human doctors are worse at diagnosing.
by izzydata 3y ago
How do you verify that a better diagnosis was made? With human doctors? But human doctors are worse at diagnosing.
- bearjaws 3y agoMultiple doctors, with consensus. Can still be wrong for very complicated cases, but 99.99% of the time its correct.
- badcppdev 3y agoThey did the equivalent of unit tests but for doctors.... seems sensible
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y agoThey're not even real cases, so there's nothing to verify. This study is so far below the standard of evidence for medicine it's comical.
- marcosdumay 3y agoIt's just another of those "Look how this general intelligence can distinguish between the data on the training set!" that get spammed everywhere nowadays.
- margorczynski 3y agoWell you can invert the approach. So you: 1) Take a given ailment 2) Take all the symptoms that it produces 3) Choose some at random 4) Construct a synthetic patient case with those symptoms where you know exactly what the problem is