MedPage Today May 14, 2024
– Opinions differ on how much physicians should be embracing the technology
How good would an algorithm have to be to take over your job?
It’s a new question for many workers amid the rise of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence (AI) programs that can hold conversations, write stories, and even generate songs and images within seconds.
For doctors who review scans to spot cancer and other diseases, however, AI has loomed for about a decade as more algorithms promise to improve accuracy, speed up work, and in some cases take over entire parts of the job. Predictions have ranged from doomsday scenarios in which AI fully replaces radiologists, to sunny futures in which it frees them to focus on...