There is a lot of negativity towards AI. However, there’s also real shortcomings to the study. IMO the issue here is that the AI was given case notes for a patient, but was not shown the patient directly. This is both different than what a doctor is trained for and also unnecessarily limiting for what a doctor can do. A lot of the value doctors deliver is from talking to the patient. The headline makes it sound like AI is going to replace doctors, but it seems more like “AI can do this one niche task better than doctors can do this one niche task”. The notes being used are probably written by a doctor(s) to begin with. I think the real reward here is that the doctor+AI unit should perform better than the doctor in isolation –– in the case where a doctor would have to read case notes and make some conclusion, the doctor can now rely on AI for pretty good suggestions.

> real reward here is that the doctor+AI unit should perform better than the doctor in isolation

that is true for other profession as well.

while everyone is afraid of layoff, the real question is always "employee+AI" is better than employee/AI alone or not.