As artificial intelligence takes medicine by storm, some doctors have expressed concern that it will be replaced by technology. But is replacement really that bad?
It’s bad when technology isn’t ’embodied’, he said Uliri Onovakpuri, Managing Partner Kapoor CapitalDuring a panel discussion on Monday at med city investment Conference in Chicago. AI still has many flaws. She used the example of using ChatGPT to create her own bio for her work.
“according to [ChatGPT], I went to medical school and practiced for five years,” she said. “I like it a lot, and I’m sure my parents like it. The reality is, it’s not. It put me at a company I’ve never worked for before. There are still inherent flaws.”
Relying entirely on AI could potentially seriously harm patients, she said.
“My concern is what kind of chaos will it bring into the clinic if doctors are in a rush and don’t have time to test,” Onovakpuri said. “Do misdiagnosis occur?”
The risks in healthcare are higher than in other industries, she added.
“The important thing about medicine is that you can’t break things in a hurry because you’re breaking people and you don’t want to. We believe we are in the 99th percentile range…until we are 100% ready to move to an AI system,” said Onovakpuri.
Dipa Mehta, Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Ventures at Advocate Health, also joined as a panelist and said that there is one thing AI in particular will be difficult to replace. It is “empathy”.
“Ability to” [patients] Being able to talk to someone to get a cancer diagnosis and having a machine tell you a cancer diagnosis is really very different. …I do believe there are elements of AI that can help, but I think there are a lot of things we need to be able to actually change to get something better than what we get from doctors. “Said.
Blue Venture Fund managing director Mike Spadafor added that AI should make doctors’ jobs easier, not replace them.
“My hope is that [AI] It creates room for doctors to be more empathetic,” Spadafor said. “So many doctors have to spend so much time juggling so many things within such a narrow frame. I think the low-hanging fruit, the most likely and the part I’m looking forward to, is all of these existing workflows, how can we make these workflows more efficient? …I think a change of doctor is a little far away.”
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