Post #6878

⚠️ A new study suggests AI may already outperform ER doctors at one of the hardest parts of medicine: early diagnosis. Researchers found that OpenAI’s year-old o1 model identified the correct or near-correct diagnosis 67% of the time, compared to 50–55% for emergency physicians. The gap was largest during early triage, when doctors have limited information, patients are piling up, and mistakes are most dangerous. Even more striking: the study didn’t use clean textbook examples. It tested the model on messy, real-world ER cases. And this was with o1, a model already considered old by AI standards. The study didn’t include imaging like CT scans or X-rays, and it only covered short ER encounters rather than long hospital stays. So there are still major limitations. But the direction is becoming hard to ignore: AI is rapidly turning from a medical assistant into a clinical reasoning system that may outperform humans in high-pressure environments. Source. @aipost🏴