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Scott Nover
Contributing Writer
Scott Nover is the lead writer for GZERO AI. He's a contributing writer for Slate and was previously a staff writer at Quartz and Adweek. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Fast Company, Vox.com, and The Washington Post, among other outlets. He currently lives near Washington, DC, with his wife and pup.
Jan 15, 2024
Would you go to an AI doctor? Google researchers have published a study showing that its medical chatbot more accurately diagnosed respiratory and cardiovascular illnesses in conversations with actor patients than a panel of doctors. Google said the “patients” also gave the chatbot higher marks for bedside manner, finding the bot more empathetic than the human physicians.
Nature, which wrote about the study, noted that the experimental chatbot, the Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer, or AMIE, hasn’t been used on human patients just yet. It also isn’t a peer-reviewed study.
But if chatbots could help assess and diagnose patients, the scientists behind the paper argue, it could democratize access to high-quality medical care and “help realize better health outcomes.”
