Is AI smarter than your doctor?

Microsoft says its latest AI system can diagnose patients more accurately than medical professionals — here's what that means for you!

Transcript

00:00Who do you trust more? A doctor with years of training or an AI built to diagnose diseases?

00:07AI is transforming medicine. It can detect cancer at a really early stage. It spots signs of

00:13Alzheimer's before symptoms really show. And AI models are especially good at reading medical

00:19images. But here's the big question. Can AI help with general diagnosis, like when you walk into

00:26a clinic with vague symptoms? And what does all this mean for you? Let's find out.

00:31Diagnosed by AI. Microsoft has built an AI system called MAIDXO. They linked it to a specific medical

00:40database. And OpenAI's ChatGPT-03. That's an advanced reasoning model. What does that mean?

00:48The AI doesn't just offer the most likely answer like other models would. It tries to solve problems

00:54step by step, using logic and evidence to solve complex tasks. To test it, Microsoft generated

01:01medical cases based on different patients' real data. Each case came with a set of symptoms. The

01:07AI could even order extra tests, fictional but medically accurate, to confirm or rule out a

01:13diagnosis. Microsoft says the AI solved 8 out of 10 cases. When real doctors were given the case

01:20studies without any help. No books, no colleagues, no AI. Their answers were only right in 2 out of

01:27the 10 cases. What's important? A peer review where other experts evaluate the research is still pending

01:34for this study. Still, Mustafa Suleiman, head of Microsoft's AI unit, says these systems could be

01:40nearly error-free in a couple of years. So could AI be smarter than your doctor? Well, in specific cases,

01:49it already kind of is. Especially when it comes to medical image recognition, like analyzing brain

01:55scans. It can also save costs. According to Microsoft, MAIDXO was better than doctors at picking the right

02:03diagnostic tests. Fewer unnecessary ones means more efficient care. But, and this is important,

02:09the company says there is no way AI could replace doctors. Why? Because medicine is not just about data.

02:17Still, many experts believe that AI will reshape healthcare. It could personalize treatments and

02:23speed up drug development, and even help you manage your care routine and monitor drug intake and vitals,

02:30for example. So we can all probably benefit from medical AI in the near future.

02:36Even though ChatGPT-03 was part of Microsoft's AI setup, don't turn to a regular chatbot for medical

02:43advice. Here are five reasons why. First, a chatbot doesn't know your full medical history. It can't

02:50give advice that's truly personal or accurate in your situation. An AI chatbot can't examine you or order

02:58tests. And those are often needed to figure out what's really going on with your health. Sometimes

03:03it gives wrong or outdated information. That's because it's just pulling from the data that it was trained

03:09on and not real-time medical data. An AI chatbot can sound confident even when it's wrong. That might

03:16make you trust advice that could actually be harmful. And last but not least, AI is not a doctor. Real

03:23doctors use years of training and hands-on experience. While a chatbot is just a tool meant to help with

03:29general information. It's not meant to replace professional care. That's it from me. See you soon. Bye!