Microsoft has unveiled a new medical tool, fueled by artificial intelligence, that it claims far outperforms human doctors in diagnosing complex ailments.
Mustafa Suleyman, who formed an AI health unit for the tech giant last year, told Financial Times for an interview published Monday that the company is nearing “AI models that are not just a little bit better, but dramatically better, than human performance: faster, cheaper, and four times more accurate.”
The Microsoft AI Diagnostic Orchestrator, or “MAI-DxO,” he added, will be “truly transformative.”
The new system is the first initiative emerging from the AI unit, which Suleyman formed by poaching staff from DeepMind, a research lab he co-founded. Google now owns DeepMind.
Suleyman, the chief executive of Microsoft AI, said that the system’s trial is a step on the way to “medical superintelligence,” which would both help solve staffing issues and long waiting times for health systems.
The AI model uses an “orchestrator” creating panels of five AI agents that act as “doctors.” Each of the agents has a role, such as choosing testing, and they interact to determine how to move forward.
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