Mount Sinai has become a laboratory for AI, trying to shape the future of medicine. But some healthcare workers fear the technology comes at a cost.
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I’m not an expert at ML or cardiology, but I was able to create models that could detect heart arrhythmias with upwards of 90% accuracy, higher accuracy than a cardiologist, and do so much faster.
Do I think AI can replace doctors? No. The amount of data needed to train a model is immense (granted I only had access to public sets), and detecting rarer conditions was not feasible. While AI will beat cardiologists in this one aspect, making predictions is not the only thing a cardiologist does.
But I think positioning AI as a tool to assist in triage, and to provide second opinions could be a massive boon for the industry.
It can also help get better medical advice into people’s hands, when such can be extremely inaccessible under our current, maximum enshittified healthcare system.
That is a good thing and a bad thing. Self diagnosis will inevitably end with misdiagnosis.
I think AI has the potential to increase the amount of patients seen, and maybe even decrease cost, but in the enshittified American system I’m willing to bet it would not be close to the best outcome
