If A.i. Can Diagnose Patients, What Are Doctors For?
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The article 'If A.I. Can Diagnose Patients, What Are Doctors For?' from The New Yorker explores the implications of AI in medical diagnosis, sparking discussion on the role of doctors in the future of healthcare.
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Hosted AI with specific version numbers are, by corporate preference, memetic monocultures: even when they're generally better, the failures are correlated.
* despite how generally impressed I am by SOTA models, I still suspect this story has been cherry-picking successes