
Are we ready for a dose of digital medicine?
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One of OpenAI’s leading artificial intelligence models can outperform humans in diagnosing medical conditions, but does that mean AI is ready to replace human doctors? Not entirely, although this technology may play an increasingly important role in medical treatment.
Adam Rodman At Harvard Medical School and its colleagues at universities, hospitals and companies in the US, they put o1-preview, an AI model released by OpenAI in September, through a battery of tests designed to evaluate its performance on a wide range of medical tasks. These were adapted…