Microsoft created an AI doctor that diagnoses 4x better than regular doctors (but your mom still knows what's wrong with you) 🤖👨⚕️

When a Microsoft engineer became the dad who changed medicine

Imagine this: your child has a rare brain disease, but doctors can't figure out what's wrong. What does a regular engineer do? Right — he gathers a team and creates AI that can diagnose what humans couldn't.

That's exactly how DxGPT from Microsoft was born. The father-engineer got frustrated (and rightfully so), Satya Nadella supported the idea, and here we have — a revolution in medicine.

But is this really a revolution, or just another marketing fairy tale? 🤔

📊 Numbers that make you think (or laugh)

Microsoft released an AI service called MAI-Dx0 based on OpenAI o3, which works like a team of doctors in your computer:

• One agent orders tests

• Another analyzes them

• A third makes the diagnosis

• The fourth probably makes coffee

Test results:

• MAI-Dx0: 85% correct diagnoses

• Regular doctors: 20% correct diagnoses

• Me after 10 minutes on Google: 100% sure I have cancer (wrong 99% of the time)

They tested it on 304 of the most difficult medical cases from the NEJM medical journal. And it even orders fewer tests, especially expensive ones.

🎉 Microsoft: "Doctors, don't worry!" (but maybe worry a little)

The coolest part of this story? DxGPT is free and available to everyone. Just take it and integrate it into your healthcare system.

Microsoft even wants to put the "AI doctor" into Bing and Copilot. Now your search engine won't just find soup recipes, but also diagnose your diseases. What could go wrong? 🚀

🤨 But hold on there, dear friends...

Sounds cool, right? But here we should pause and think with our heads. If something seems too perfect — usually there are hidden problems. So let's see if everything is really so great with this AI doctor.

1. Test cases aren't realistic They tested on difficult cases from medical journals — this is like teaching AI to play chess only with grandmaster games, then being surprised why it can't beat a child at tic-tac-toe.

2. Really difficult cases were just ignored Those diseases that nobody can diagnose at all? They just didn't include them in testing. It's like saying: "Our calculator perfectly solves all problems, except those it can't solve." Perfect logic!

3. But what about the real world? The most interesting part starts when AI meets real life. Nobody checked how it works with:

• Mistakes in test results (and they happen)

• Patients who "slightly exaggerate" their symptoms

• People who believe in the evil eye and treat themselves by moon calendar

• Situations when the nearest MRI is in the next town

4. Ukrainian context (or reality that hits you hard) When we have one X-ray machine for the whole district, and the patient says "it hurts somewhere here" pointing to half their body — how should AI handle this? Probably start suggesting "take some paracetamol and come back in a week" 😅

💡 What if we used AI smartly? (revolutionary idea!)

But wait! Instead of trying to replace doctors with robots, what if we approach this from a different angle? What if we use AI where it can really help, without pretending to be Dr. House?

AI could:

• Fill medical records (instead of doctors spending hours on paperwork)

• Organize test results

• Remind about regular checkups

• Translate medical terms into language patients understand

• Calculate insurance cases (though we have everything free anyway... theoretically)

• Automatically create reports (so doctors spend less time on bureaucracy)

Just imagine: a doctor spends 80% of time talking with patients and treating them, not filling forms! That would be a real revolution, not another marketing trick.

🎯 Bottom line (or what a skeptical programmer who still goes to doctors thinks)

AI in medicine really is cool and has huge potential. But let's not get too excited with marketing exaggerations. For now, it's more like a "smart assistant" than a "doctor replacement." And that's normal!

But using AI to simplify routine work — this really could change medicine for the better. Less paperwork, more time for patients, fewer tired doctors. Now that's what I call progress!

Most importantly: I'll still go to a real doctor. Because when my head hurts, I need not just a diagnosis, but a person who'll say: "It's from the computer, work less and sleep more." Though AI would probably say the same thing... 😊

Are you ready to trust an AI doctor? Or better to keep it as an assistant?

P.S. After writing this article, I got a headache. AI says — migraine, Google says — brain tumor, my wife says — from the computer. Going to see a real doctor to find out who's right 🤷‍♂️

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