Next-gen tech outsmarts doctors with more accurate diagnoses and better bedside manner: study

A group of scientists from across the U.S. claim to have created the first artificial intelligence capable of generating AI without human supervision. A Google artificial intelligence system gave patients more accurate diagnoses and provided better bedside manner than traditional doctors, a recent study by the tech giant found. Actors portraying patients, unaware whether they were texting with real doctors or Google's Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer (AMIE) overall preferred how the AI handled their medical conditions, according to the study, which was published Jan. 11 on the scholarly distribution site arXiv. A panel of doctors, meanwhile, also found AMIE to be more accurate at diagnosing the patients than actual physicians. "To our knowledge, this is the first time that a conversational AI system has ever been designed optimally for diagnostic dialogue and taking the clinical history," Alan Karthikesalingam, a clinical research scientist at Google Health in London and a co-author of the study, told the scientific journal Nature on Friday.