Comment by devmor
21 hours ago
Until medical models can contrive of unique diagnosis, this will not be true and cannot be true.
Medical models can absolutely get better at recognizing the patterns of diagnosis that doctors have already been diagnosing - which means they will also amplify misdiagnosis that aren't corrected for via cohort average. This is easy to see a large problem with: you end up with a pseudo-eugenics medical system that can't help people who aren't experiencing a "standard" problem.
The pitfall you describe is not inconsistent with exceeding human performance by most metrics.
I'd argue that the current system in the west already exhibits this problem to some extent. Fortunately it's a systemic issue as opposed to a technical one so there's no reason AI necessarily has to make it worse.
That’s not really an argument, it is central to my point. The current system does exhibit those issues and it is by human creativity and outliers that we have some points of escape from it.
Codifying and distilling it removes the points of escape.
Sure, it's not an argument if you ignore half of what I wrote. Your previous reply to me was similarly disconnected from the comment it was responding to.
Were the systemic issue to remain unaddressed AI would certainly be expected to make it worse. But it could be addressed if there was the will to do so. In fact AI could actually be leveraged to improve things by taking on the role that physicians play now thus freeing them up to pursue the edge cases that don't fit the mold.