Artificial Intelligence That Diagnoses Diseases Better Than Doctors

Artificial intelligence technologies, which surprise us more every day, are gaining abilities that can replace humans in different fields. Medicine is one of them. We have seen several times before that artificial intelligence outperforms doctors. Now a new one has been added to these.

Googlepublished a study about a chatbot based on a self-developed language model (LLM). The study found that the chatbot performed better than doctors in medical interviews.

He diagnosed diseases better than doctors and had better empathy

Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer (AMIE) The model, called the model, is based on talking to patients and their medical history. from doctors about listing diagnoses More succesfull happened. The study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, was published as a preprint on arXiv on January 11.

Google researchers say the model can better diagnose respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. He also adds that he was able to obtain similar amounts of information during interviews as real doctors and even empathize better.

However, it should be emphasized that the model has not been tested on real patients yet. In the study, only patients actors portraying was used. The researchers described the model as “experimental” and stated that it was too early to say anything yet.

20 players simulated 149 different clinical scenarios within the scope of the study. The interviews were also conducted text-based rather than face-to-face. During the calls, players did not know whether they were talking to real doctors or a chatbot. A group of experts also evaluated the performance of AMIE and doctors. As a result of studies examining things such as politeness, explaining the condition and treatment, appearing honest, and diagnosis, it was found that the chat bot in 24 of 26 criteria It was seen that he passed the doctors.

AMIE delivers better results than doctors, but won’t replace them

Of course, these results do not mean that artificial intelligence will replace doctors. Google researcher Alan Karthikesalingam also commented on the subject:“This in no way means that a language model is better at medical interviews than doctors.” he said. On the other hand, Adam Rodman, a doctor at Harvard, said that the tool may be useful, but it cannot replace doctors: “Medicine is more than gathering information. It’s all about human relations.”

It is necessary to add this about the research. The participating physicians were never used to conducting such text-based interviews. This may have affected their performance and caused artificial intelligence to take the lead.

Still, the study shows that artificial intelligence has the potential to perform similarly to a doctor who can empathize and make a diagnosis based on the patient’s history. The next step in this research is to conduct more detailed studies to evaluate potential biases and ensure that the system produces similar results in different populations.

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