I agree. I think this is the same kind of narrow minded mistake that AI made by focusing on getting computers to play chess instead of realising that the hard p

I agree. I think this is the same kind of narrow minded mistake that AI made by focusing on getting computers to play chess instead of realising that the hard problem was really building something that could even recognise a single chess piece in different lighting conditions. A lot of medicine is about perception. Obviously there is a huge amount of physical perception and pattern recognition but also, for example, a brilliant doctor who is not from the same culture as the patient will often miss something vital when taking a history from that patient that a local doctor will pick up straight away. These things are complex and subtle. We need to recognise just how limited technology is if we ever want to really improve it instead of getting too exited about the things it can do.