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Will AI make bad doctors better and good doctors worse?

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Last week we talked about the jagged edges of healthcare technology and how AI might help smooth some of those out. The same paper that discussed the concept of the jagged edges of AI also looked at human performance when using AI: “Initial studies show AI improves the performance of low performers. AI is great at some things and terrible at others. How humans decide which tasks to allocate to AI is important. Experience helps. “Within this growing frontier, AI can complement or even displace human work; outside of the frontier, AI output is inaccurate, less useful, and degrades human performance.” Their paper suggests that people who “discern which tasks are best suited for human intervention and which can be efficiently managed by AI”, ie, figuring out where the ‘invisible wall’ of AI capabilities lies, have the best overall performance. The study also pointed out that people who used AI did better at most tasks. They looked at an elite consulting firm, BCG, and scored performance on

Will AI make bad doctors better and good doctors worse? And what we can learn from how doctors use non-traditional approaches Sarah Gebauer, MD Feb 13, 2024 5 Share Last week we talked about the jagged edges of healthcare technology and how AI might help smooth some of those out. The same paper that discussed the concept of the jagged edges of AI also looked at human performance when using AI: “Initial studies show AI improves the performance of low performers . AI is great at some things and terrible at others. How humans decide which tasks to allocate to AI is important. Experience helps. “W

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