but it should (unless the medical / insurance industry pulls their shenanigans - which is a real risk) be a lot cheaper to have a machine examine you. just like we have blood pressure machines at the drugstore. we could have checkup-supplement kiosks that could check your vitals cheap/free and tell you the same thing.
what I'm excited for with AI + medicine is how many poor people will be able to get _some_ level of healthcare where they were previously getting none. These programs aren't free, but once they exist they are cheap to run. so people in 3rd world countries can get their films read, or have an AI dematology program look at their skin.
cynically though, I worry that once these AI programs get perfected they will only exist behind the worlds toughest paywall and insurance will just charge you the same fee to see a real doctor. they'll not let it run films on poor african villagers because they have to "protect their IP" or some bs.
what I'm excited for with AI + medicine is how many poor people will be able to get _some_ level of healthcare where they were previously getting none. These programs aren't free, but once they exist they are cheap to run. so people in 3rd world countries can get their films read, or have an AI dematology program look at their skin.
cynically though, I worry that once these AI programs get perfected they will only exist behind the worlds toughest paywall and insurance will just charge you the same fee to see a real doctor. they'll not let it run films on poor african villagers because they have to "protect their IP" or some bs.