Have you ever played Akinator? That's basically what almost all doctors are. You come to them with an initial complaint, then they ask you questions that eliminate increasingly fewer diseases until there's only one possibility. With the proper data set, it would be trivial to program a web app that can replace 90% of doctor's visits.
People have been conditioned to see doctors as hyper-intelligent demigods who do the impossible, but in reality they're basically just walking flow charts. Every disease has a set way to diagnose and treat it, and they're just following the script. Even the lab results are already interpreted for them by a computer. They're not doing anything novel or creative at all.
There are things that an AI genuinely cannot do, such as physical exams and, of course, surgery, but for the most part there's no reason a sufficiently trained AI couldn't do what they do.
I'd bet that within 25 years, almost all GPs will have been replaced by an app that does what they do for free. That is, assuming TPTB don't torpedo it by paying some black people to call it racist. Or assuming the people making it don't lobotomize it to hide the fact that certain groups of people objectively live less healthy lives than others. Or assuming they don't train it on junk data from Berkeley which makes it diagnose everyone as having gender dysphoria. So actually there are a lot of reasons this might not happen. And all of them involve runaway leftism.
I'd bet that within 25 years, almost all GPs will have been replaced by an app that does what they do for free.
The current trend has been to replace frontline primary care MDs with undertrained, "cheaper" female nurse practitioners who are dangerous because they don't even know what they don't know.
Like everything, what will be lost with the introduction of AI will be nuance.
Essentially every current prescription for antibiotic drops for pink eye is completely useless and inappropriate because it's 90%+ viral in origin in children, but every child gets treated anyway because moms demand it, daycares and schools have protocols demanding it, doctors are lazy/pushovers/opportunists, it's not socially acceptable to "do nothing rather than something", etc.
An AI can be programmed to inappropriately dispense bad medicine to every child with a gunky eye as well, but it also changes and ignores all the social dynamics that play out because the "right" treatment isn't always what's written in the textbook.
Said app, will be owned by the insurance companies/government, and certain decision boxes will only be available based on your social credit score. All trees will end at KYS.
Have you ever played Akinator? That's basically what almost all doctors are. You come to them with an initial complaint, then they ask you questions that eliminate increasingly fewer diseases until there's only one possibility. With the proper data set, it would be trivial to program a web app that can replace 90% of doctor's visits.
People have been conditioned to see doctors as hyper-intelligent demigods who do the impossible, but in reality they're basically just walking flow charts. Every disease has a set way to diagnose and treat it, and they're just following the script. Even the lab results are already interpreted for them by a computer. They're not doing anything novel or creative at all.
There are things that an AI genuinely cannot do, such as physical exams and, of course, surgery, but for the most part there's no reason a sufficiently trained AI couldn't do what they do.
I'd bet that within 25 years, almost all GPs will have been replaced by an app that does what they do for free. That is, assuming TPTB don't torpedo it by paying some black people to call it racist. Or assuming the people making it don't lobotomize it to hide the fact that certain groups of people objectively live less healthy lives than others. Or assuming they don't train it on junk data from Berkeley which makes it diagnose everyone as having gender dysphoria. So actually there are a lot of reasons this might not happen. And all of them involve runaway leftism.
The current trend has been to replace frontline primary care MDs with undertrained, "cheaper" female nurse practitioners who are dangerous because they don't even know what they don't know.
Like everything, what will be lost with the introduction of AI will be nuance.
Essentially every current prescription for antibiotic drops for pink eye is completely useless and inappropriate because it's 90%+ viral in origin in children, but every child gets treated anyway because moms demand it, daycares and schools have protocols demanding it, doctors are lazy/pushovers/opportunists, it's not socially acceptable to "do nothing rather than something", etc.
An AI can be programmed to inappropriately dispense bad medicine to every child with a gunky eye as well, but it also changes and ignores all the social dynamics that play out because the "right" treatment isn't always what's written in the textbook.
Said app, will be owned by the insurance companies/government, and certain decision boxes will only be available based on your
socialcredit score. All trees will end at KYS.