“Expert systems” have helped with diagnoses for many years now.
And one of those ‘expert systems’ damn near got me killed.
PA ran a 12 lead and used a computer to analyze the results.
“You’ve had a heart attack,” he said, “and you have...”
I asked to see the tape.
“What’s this line of steady pulses? Is it an artifact of the system?” I’d worked in an ER long enough to at least know what a 12-lead stripe should look like.
Embarrassed the PA bad enough that I got sent to a cardiologist...and got a lot of chatter. The echocardiogram showed nothing, really. “You need more testing”....
Two days later in the ER, the Doc told me I was lucky - my lungs were so filled with a pulmonary embolism (blood clots), that had I go ne to bed that night instead of the ER, I would have died in my sleep.
(Yes I got the Now Banned J&J clot shot)
Another NDE thanks to specialist w/tunnel vision and PA that was in waaay over their head....
It depends on what kind of ai it is. I built expert systems. Traditionally, classic expert systems can diagnose but they are only “experts” because of the rules experts have explicitly programmed into them, not to learn or make connections that aren’t already programmed in. If they have any speculation capability its programmed in, they dont adapt on the fly.
Expert systems are what the name implies. They use the accumulated knowledge and experience of experts in the field to build a huge, reliable database that others in the field can use to tap into the accumulated knowledge of the real experts. Expert systems are not something new.
I’m not worried about my doctors logging into Chat GPT to ask what it thinks they should do.