Microsoft says its AI tool is better than doctors at diagnosing diseases
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TL;DR
- Microsoft claims its new AI tool can diagnose conditions up to four times more accurately than human doctors.
- The AI system, named Diagnostic Orchestrator, uses multiple AI agents to mimic the diagnostic process of doctors.
- In tests based on The New England Journal of Medicine cases, the AI achieved 83% accuracy, compared to 36% for generalist physicians.
- On emergency department cases, the AI scored 80% accuracy, versus 47% for human physicians.
- The AI system also tended to reach diagnoses at a lower estimated cost.
- The research is published in the journal Science, and Microsoft plans to open-source its benchmark, SDBench.
- The system is powered by OpenAI's GPT-5 and outperformed other frontier AI models in tests.