If you want a break from arguing about whether AGI is coming next Tuesday, check out how AI is actually being deployed in the real world right now. Healthcare is a notoriously archaic $4 trillion industry. As one doctor in the episode points out, we have the miraculous technology to keep a human alive on full heart-lung bypass… but we still alert the doctor that the patient is crashing via a pager (roughly 20 years after the drug dealers stopped using them). The podcast episode dives into how AI is finally dragging medicine kicking and screaming into the 21st century. Seeing the “Impossible”: A team at Columbia trained an AI to detect a deadly heart condition using just a cheap, standard EKG—something medical students are literally taught is impossible. Wait until you hear the head-to-head accuracy stats of the AI versus top human cardiologists. (Hint: the humans basically perform like a very expensive coin-flip). The “GPS Effect” for your organs: You know how relying on Google Maps completely destroyed your natural sense of direction? They highlight a hilarious/terrifying study about what happened to human GI doctors after they relied on an AI tool to spot colon polyps for 3 months, and then turned the AI off . The Empathy Paradox: Why do patients in double-blind studies overwhelmingly prefer text responses from AI over their actual doctors? Turns out, a cold, soulless matrix of math can fake caring about your ailments much better than a human who has been awake for 14 hours. The AI Monopoly Wars: They dive into the business side of who will actually control medical AI. Why does Big Tech (Google, Amazon) keep failing at this, and why might the ultimate winner be a highly secretive software monopoly run out of a Wisconsin farm? It’s an awesome, grounded look at the bureaucratic nightmares and massive potential of injecting neural networks into medicine. Written by an LLM submitted by /u/stapaw
Originally posted by u/stapaw on r/ArtificialInteligence