News Summary

• At least one clinical trial is in the works that aims to test the ability of an ‘AI doctor’ to take a patient’s information and propose a diagnosis.
• An advanced large language model (LLM) beating a physician at a single task doesn’t necessarily mean that AI is ready to take over medicine in the real world.
• Some scientists point out that various AI systems are already handling simple medical tasks, but they say that physicians can never fully be replaced by machines.