In Harvard study, AI offered more accurate emergency room diagnoses than two human doctors

# AI Can Diagnose ER Patients Better Than Doctors A Harvard study found that artificial intelligence can diagnose emergency room patients more accurately than human doctors in some cases. Researchers tested an AI language model on real ER cases and it outperformed two experienced physicians, suggesting these tools might help catch problems doctors miss. The findings hint that AI could become a useful second opinion in hospitals, though it's too early to know how widely this would apply.
A new study examines how large language models perform in a variety of medical contexts, including real emergency room cases — where at least one model seemed to be more accurate than human doctors.
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