AI can make medicine more efficient.

It can expand differentials.

It can prevent mistakes.

It can propose diagnostics and treatments.

It can document the note and thought process behind the decisions.

It will continue to get better.

But it can’t teach wisdom.

If young doctors never learn to argue with the algorithm, the pipeline of learning wisdom dies.

In ten years, the thinkers will be the ones naming their price.

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It can link to nonexistent pubmed articles and make up data. It is seriously too soon to use it for designing a decision path for a patient.

Yes, hallucinations are a weakness. Much improved from what it was 2 years ago though. Sometimes I'm not sure which to trust though since I don't trust everything published on pubmed either.