AI comes to Medicine?
HT: Marginal Revolution.
Tag: AI
AI outperforms physicians in answering patient’s questions
Do patients prefer AI or physician responses to their questions. Based on a study in JAMA Internal Medicine by Ayers et al (2023), the answer is AI: Of the 195 questions and responses, evaluators preferred chatbot responses to physician responses in 78.6% (95% CI, 75.0%-81.8%) of the 585 evaluations… Chatbot responses were rated of significantly…
JAMA on whether AI can be included as a co-author on publications
In short, the answer is ‘no’. The full rationale is here, but here is an excerpt from their policy: Nonhuman artificial intelligence, language models, machine learning, or similar technologies do not qualify for authorship.If these models or tools are used to create content or assist with writing or manuscript preparation, authors must take responsibility for…
AI and health care: Where are we now?
There has been much hype about how artificial intelligence (AI) can revolutionize health care. Has it been able to do so? According to a The Economist‘s Technology Quarterly on AI and its limits, the answer is not as much as we had hoped. First, the hype: PWC…predicts that artificial intelligence will add $16trn to the…
How to become a centaur
Interesting article on how human intelligence and artificial intelligence can be seen as complements rather than substitutes. Human+AI combinations have been shown to perform better than human or AI alone. Why? AIs are best at choosing answers. Humans are best at choosing questions. The advent of AI is not a zero sum game. The symbiotic…
AI, Robots and the Future of Health Care
Interesting video from Wired on how artificial intelligence (AI) software may help improve patient care in the future.
Atul Gawande on AI
Tyler Cowen has one of his “Conversations” with Atul Gawande. The interview is interesting throughout. Below is an excerpt from their discussion on artificial intelligence. TYLER COWEN: …How far are we from having an AI that is capable of actually doing diagnosis to people? That is, they might speak into a Skype connection, something like Watson would…