Microsoft says its new AI tool performs four times better than experienced human doctors at diagnosing complex health conditions — but the company’s AI CEO says human physicians are still needed to help treat the illnesses.
In a paper released on Monday titled “The Path to Medical Superintelligence,” Microsoft introduced an AI tool that correctly diagnosed complex cases up to 85% of the time and arrived at the diagnoses more cost-effectively than human physicians.
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The team used more than 300 complex case studies from the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and had the