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Doctors can then focus on new diseases, higher level thinking about health, rare cases and such. Under-researched domains can get attention

Scea91 on Jan 27, 2017 [–]

Yes. People are acting like the medicine problem would be solved if ML could replicate the performance of doctors today.

I hope that, as you said, it will allow doctors to focus on more difficult problems that we did not even think would be possible to tackle.

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