AI forces doctors to reconsider the nature of diagnosis

Physicians received unexpected news recently when a small study published in JAMA Network Open found that ChatGPT-4 had outdone us at our own craft: diagnosis, what some have called the physician’s “most important procedure.” The study’s large language model (LLM) outperformed doctors, achieving a 90% diagnostic reasoning score on challenging cases while physicians — even those working with the chatbot — reached only 76%.

But more striking than the numbers was what the study…