A new study in JAMA Internal Medicine finds that AI was better than physicians in processing medical data and doing clinical reasoning on real patient cases. That doesn’t mean that AI can replace doctors, of course, but it does suggest something else that is very important. To quote from one of the paper authors, the research shows “that LLMs are capable of mimicking some of the powerful processes that we use to make diagnoses — processes that, until basically last year, we physicians thought were unique to us.“
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