How good are ‘AI doctors’ — and will they take over medicine?

At least one clinical trial is in the works that aims to test the ability of an ‘AI doctor’ to take a patient’s information and propose a diagnosis. Credit: andrei_r/Getty ‘ AI outperforms doctors in emergency room tasks ’ ‘ Google AI has better bedside manner than human doctors ’ Headlines such as these that tout the abilities of artificial-intelligence tools to surpass the skills of physicians are becoming more common. An AI revolution is brewing in medicine. …