Opinion piece.
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In essence, it is probably super easy for a computer program or a language to reach a diagnosis— if you can picture a flow chart with symptoms, imagine a computer following the flow chart as the user selects prompts to further narrow down symptoms to one diagnosis (which would mean reaching the end of the flow chart).
I don’t think this necessarily requires AI— in the specific case of a patient needing a potential diagnosis though, AI kind of acts like an intermediary between human interaction and machine. Just kinda smooths over the whole process before reaching the end result.
Of course a doctor would still be involved in the process (a machine can’t treat… yet 
), but imagine a computer program or a language that could sift through hundreds of symptoms and thousands of diagnoses to find the best fit for a patient in like, 3 minutes or less.
I think this is plausible and could defos happen in our lifetime.
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I’d welcome AI doctors.
They can’t be biased a-holes.
Not all doctors are, but they’re humans with ideas about you and your health history.
AI would get to the problem and not think “this ■■■■■is crazy and imagining everything”.
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Exactly my thought.
I get more help from my Ada app than I do real doctors.
Well, until recently. There was a huge stink here a couple years ago about doctors dismissing patients. Recently there’s an influx of new doctors and PAs, and in urgent care I haven’t been dismissed. Maybe a year and a half of no bs.
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Honestly, AI already dodging less questions then my pdoc.
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