13 pointsby njx2 hours ago2 comments
  • opo12 minutes ago
    Way back in 1979, the MYCIN system was shown to be better at diagnosing than Doctors:

    >...Eight independent evaluators with special expertise in the management of meningitis compared MYCIN's choice of antimicrobials with the choices of nine human prescribers for ten test cases of meningitis. MYCIN received an acceptability rating of 65% by the evaluators; the corresponding ratings for acceptability of the regimen prescribed by the five faculty specialists ranged from 42.5% to 62.5%. The system never failed to cover a treatable pathogen while demonstrating efficiency in minimizing the number of antimicrobials prescribed.

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/480542/

  • NotGManan hour ago
    Often doctors miss rare diseases and gaslight patients that they don't have them.

    AI is great for this since it has encyclopedic knowledge.