alt Hacker News> "An AI and a pair of human doctors were each given the same standard electronic health record to read"
This is handicapping the human doctors abilities. There is a lot more information a human doctor can gather even with a brief observation of the patient.
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Agreed. I think the best use of this sort of tech is to use both to their strengths. Use AI to go over the record and suggest diagnoses which you have the doctor review after observing the patient.
The other thing is that common issues are common. I have to wonder how much that ultimately biases both the doctor and the LLM. If you diagnose someone that comes in with a runny nose and cough as having the flu you will likely be right most of the time.
On the other hand,
> there are few things as dangerous as an expert with access to open-ended data that can be interpreted wildly, like a clinical interview.
https://entropicthoughts.com/arithmetic-models-better-than-y...
This feels like a deeply important observation. Now also, would be interesting to include e.g. a short video or photograph for the AI to use as well.
Bonus, health networks now push doctors to use AI transcription software for the EHR entries. Doctors and nurses like it because they don't have to type it up. But it is a complete shitshow on whether the records are reviewed for transcription errors which happen quite often
Now feed a flawed transcripted into an AI diagnosis system and bam-o. The AI will treat it as gospel, while the doctor may go wait what.
Can't the same be said for the AI?