AI to replace/help in medicine?

A woeful argument in defence of my opinion.

While it might take around 50-100 years to reach an AI model that would be equipped with enough knowledge to diagnose, it would also mean that it would take even longer to add more knowledge on aiding research with precision and accuracy like nothing we’ve ever seen.

Language models have the capability to reshape medicine but not anytime soon and not in the way that you think at the moment I believe. AI models ‘hallucinate’ making up information that isn’t there. This could be a danger to doctors relying on it for diagnosing rare cases and an end of life care. A more acceptable approach would be rather to create an app that can connect to specialist doctors who could suggest approaches and give differential diagnostics. The language models rely on an input and output which would mean realistically you need doctors who are specialists with years of training under their belt to fill in the gaps of information/knowledge that AI lacks. Revolutionising primary care visit by giving priority access care to certain groups like the elderly and the young could prevent this over-reliance on the AI model. Yes this saves time for doctors. Yes this reduces visit durations potentially. But think about what you were trained for in the first place, and keep in mind that there’s a doctor shortage. We need each and every one of you. If AI is as brilliant as Sam Altman claims it’s gotta replace doctors at the snap of my fingers. Think about it.

All AI is at the end of the day is a bunch of programming with multiple chips inserted to make it faster and more powerful. What’s happened to all the trust in the physicians? Imagine the number of years we take to strive to be the best we possibly can for our patients? It’s all madness to me now! Keep in mind that even to access loads of case histories, Chat GPT-5 needs to get immediate access to clinical databases with patient history that many even in this technological age view as a personal asset of theirs! What happened to gathering around a table stressing out, beating around the clock, pondering over what the medical mystery truly is? Sam Altman’s creation wants you to believe in his product, as much as I want you to believe in how intelligent doctors can be!

Now they say AI helps us, the next day they say AI can beat us?! The ultimate question is how far Sam Altman will go to prove that he’s a technological prodigy?

We could improve the medical curriculum by incorporating a change in our way of approaching rare cases and a chapter at the undergraduate level on how to provide end of life care, its pros and cons, its ethics, etc. What happened to those days, the days when doctors were the Herculean heroes that they once were?! It makes you question everything.

I mean, the more Sam Altman releases the newer ChatGPT versions, the more questions I start to ask with worry. I mean what’s to become of our future? Medical literature is a vast ocean, you can never learn too much nor too little.

Writing off,

Nivea Vaz