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by johntiger1 1003 days ago
Yep, as a medical student, I strongly believe we need explainable AI for healthcare, and that AI only empowers clinicians to make the final call, and does not do any medical decision making autonomously. I really hope other players in the space like Hippocratic AI [1] and Google Med-PaLM2 [2] understand this as well.

[1]: "www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/hippocratic-health-raises-50-mln-seed-funding-build-ai-model-2023-05-16/"

[2]: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/healthcare-life-science...

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Do you even need ai? What about just a basic system where you type in some keywords like the symptom presented, it queries a known good source like the physicians desk reference or something, and returns results with a likelihood score to match your keywords? Such a systems seems like it would be useful and also would not need an ai model or expensive training to create.
> Do you even need ai?

Doesn't matter if you need it, AI is used here as a magnet for VC money.