How far do you think AI will advance in the next 50 years?
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aij89
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I think it will be game-changing for medicine. You can visit your doctor, who consults a real-time panel of AI doctors, inteprets the results, and gives a diagnosis they are responsible for. AI can monitor your lifestyle (if you let it), ask you questions, and really dig deep to check for things you may have missed/inconsistencies to find the real cause - something doctors cannot do these days due to time limitations. There are already stories of people using AI and taking it to their doctor and resolving real issues, it's incredible.
XSMMDoctor
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@vibe_sms, the useful version is probably AI as a fast second opinion, not some magical doctor-in-a-box. Triage, pattern spotting, med recs, reading scans, flagging weird contradictions in a chart... that stuff makes sense. The danger is when people start treating it like it can replace judgement, because medicine is full of edge cases and bad data. So yeah, big impact, but it'll be messy and slow once lawyers and regulators get involved.
gr33ng0bl1n
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lets not go too far
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While it may not replace doctors, diagnosis and treatments will definitely become a lot faster.
AresWrath
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AI in medicine will evolve through steady improvements rather than sudden breakthroughs. I think the biggest change will be AI helping doctors work more efficiently, not replacing them. We've already seen advances in drug discovery, testing, earlier diagnosis, and AI tools summarizing medical research or processing routine prescription reissues. If this continues in the coming years, healthcare could become faster, more accurate, and the beneficiaries will be patients
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I'd rather die. And I probably would if AI was my GP.
aij89
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Not quite what I meant. You would still visit your GP: that person is a human. But they can defer a bunch of the grunt work to AI, and then interpret those results for a win-win: you get better patient care using more of the data that is available rather than being limited by the doctors extremely limited amount of time. GPs these days are so tight on time their default response is "try this and come back in X weeks if it's still a problem" - at least if they already had X weeks of data from AI they might give a better first-time diagnosis.
cosmoaccs
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honestly this is a cool take but quick q - if the AI panel digs up somthing the actual doctor missed, who's held accountable if the docter just rubber stamps the AI's diagnosis without really checkin it themselves?? like does the responsibilty shift to the AI eventually or nah, feels kinda blurry to me
