Is AI finally ready to replace your doctor?

One of OpenAI’s leading artificial intelligence models can outperform humans at diagnosing medical conditions, but does that mean AI is ready to replace human doctors? Not quite, although such technology could increasingly play a role in medical treatment.

Adam Rodman at Harvard Medical Centre and his colleagues at universities, hospitals and companies across the US have put o1-preview, an AI model released by OpenAI in September, through a battery of tests designed to assess its performance on a range of medical tasks. These were adapted from…