Shelly Fan in Singularity Hub:
Emergency doctors make high-stakes decisions in fast-paced, often chaotic situations. They have to figure out which patient most urgently needs care, what’s wrong, and what to do next. AI could lend a hand. In a series of challenging scenarios, OpenAI’s o1-preview model matched or exceeded doctors in clinical reasoning. Debuted in 2024, the AI is a large language model similar to those powering ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and other popular chatbots. But when it was first developed, o1-preview differed in its ability to “think” through problems before answering. Such reasoning models explore multiple strategies, check themselves, and revise answers before offering a conclusion. This is a little closer to how humans solve problems. Given case reports from an established database, o1-preview diagnosed the problem nearly 89 percent of the time. In real-world emergency room scenarios, the AI outperformed physicians at the triage stage, where doctors decide which patient needs treatment first.
…This doesn’t mean that o1-preview is ready for the clinic or is about to replace physicians. Instead of a human-versus-machine spectacle, the study was more focused on setting a higher bar for systems designed to work alongside people. Like everyone else, doctors are incorporating AI into their work. Whether that improves or hinders care is an open question.
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