The benefits of AI healthcare

 Wired:

Microsoft has taken “a genuine step toward medical superintelligence,” says Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of the company’s artificial intelligence arm. The tech giant says its powerful new AI tool can diagnose disease four times more accurately and at significantly less cost than a panel of human physicians.

The experiment tested whether the tool could correctly diagnose a patient with an ailment, mimicking work typically done by a human doctor.

The Microsoft team used 304 case studies sourced from the New England Journal of Medicine to devise a test called the Sequential Diagnosis Benchmark. A language model broke down each case into a step-by-step process that a doctor would perform in order to reach a diagnosis.

Microsoft’s researchers then built a system called the MAI Diagnostic Orchestrator (MAI-DxO) that queries several leading AI models—including OpenAI’s GPT, Google’s Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude, Meta’s Llama, and xAI’s Grok—in a way that loosely mimics several human experts working together.

In their experiment, MAI-DxO outperformed human doctors, achieving an accuracy of 80 percent compared to the doctors’ 20 percent. It also reduced costs by 20 percent by selecting less expensive tests and procedures.

"This orchestration mechanism—multiple agents that work together in this chain-of-debate style—that's what's going to drive us closer to medical superintelligence,” Suleyman says.
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I would think that doctors would want to use this test procedure to get better outcomes for patients.  I would have no problem with them using it on me.  I have reached a point in my life where I have more doctor's appointments than in the past.  I have dialysis three days a week, and on my two off days, I often have doctors' appointments.