Microsoft says its AI tool is better than doctors at diagnosing conditions

Key points

• The company claims to have developed an AI-powered tool it says can diagnose conditions up to four times more accurately than human doctors.1
• The findings, published Thursday in one of the world's most prestigious journals, Science, are based on tests pitting Microsoft's AI system against human physicians on a series of scenarios drawn from medical case reports and emergency department data.1
• Microsoft’s new AI diagnostic system beat generalist doctors on hard cases, according to a study in Science.2
• But most of the improvement seems to come from the AI models underneath, not from Microsoft’s system itself.2

Sources (2)

• [1]Microsoft says its AI tool is better than doctors at diagnosing conditions
  The Verge: AI · Oct 22, 06:00 PM

  Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman. | Getty Images

  The company claims to have developed an AI-powered tool it says can diagnose conditions up to four times more accurately than human doctors.

• [2]Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says its AI outperforms doctors on hard cases as he chases ‘medical superintelligence’
  TechCrunch: AI · Oct 22, 06:43 PM

  Microsoft’s new AI diagnostic system beat generalist doctors on hard cases, according to a study in Science.

  But most of the improvement seems to come from the AI models underneath, not from Microsoft’s system itself.

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