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Even if human doctors become demonstrably worse at it than the machines?

• spc476 12y ago
  If? It's already happened: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycin#Results http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycin#Results (and this was in the 70s).
  • waterlesscloud 12y ago
    Yeah, in a very limited set of circumstances, and still with a pretty significant miss rate. But the day will come when the machines are near-perfect. And people already trust computers more than they did in the 70s. Perhaps not if you ask them directly, but the reality is that they do, with many areas of their lives, and without a second thought.
  • olalonde 12y ago
    Then why isn't there a website to get medical diagnosis on a self-serve basis? (I'm not asking rhetorically, genuinely curious)
    • ende 12y ago
      The FDA, mostly. They have a multi billion dollar industry to keep in business.