alt Hacker NewsThere are several papers demonstrating AI is at least as good at diagnostics as fully qualified doctors. So why would NP + AI be worse? AI should compensate for the lack of knowledge.
And I'm not saying NP + ChatGPT - it should be properly calibrated system which would defer to a 'proper doctor' in more complex cases.
> AI is at least as good at diagnostics as fully qualified doctors
If the prompt is an expert-written board question! Not so with inferior prompts [0]. Critically, you need deep medical knowledge to interact correctly with the agent.
What you're asking is basically: "If we take someone out of a three month dev bootcamp, and have them prompt Claude, why can't they be as good as a four year CS grad?"
I doubt that you would feel similarly about expertise in your own field.
[0]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-026-02428-5.pdf