Physician-investigators at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) compared a chatbot’s probabilistic reasoning to that of human clinicians and found that artificial intelligence could serve as useful clinical decision support tools for physicians. The study showed that when test results were positive, the chatbot was more accurate in making diagnoses than the humans in two cases, similarly accurate in two cases and less accurate in one case. However, when tests came back negative, the chatbot demonstrated more accuracy in making diagnoses than humans in all five cases.
