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n8henrietoday at 1:53 AM1 replyview on HN

Unfortunately the training data is absolute garbage.

Diagnostic standards in (at least emergency, but I think other specialties) medicine are largely a joke -- ultimately it's often either autopsy or "expert consensus."

We get to bill more for more serious diagnoses. The amount of patients I see with a "stroke" or "heart attack" diagnosis that clearly had no such thing is truly wild.

We can be sued for tens of millions of dollars for missing a serious diagnosis, even if we know an alternative explanation is more likely.

If AI is able to beat an average doctor, it will be due to alleviating perverse incentives. But I can't imagine where we could get training data that would let it be any less of a fountain of garbage than many doctors.

Without a large amount of good training data, how could AI possibly be good at doctoring IRL?


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TurdF3rgusontoday at 4:29 AM

You just get 1M doctors to wear body cams for a year. Now you have a model that has thousands of times your experience with patients, encyclopedic knowledge of every ailment including ones that never present in your geography, read all the latest papers, etc..

I don't understand how you think this doesn't win vs a human doctor.

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