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No, AI Is Not Better Than a Good Doctor

Search the internet and you will find countless testimonials of individuals using AI to get diagnoses their doctors missed. And while it is important for individuals to take ownership of their healthcare and use all available resources, it is just as important to understand the process behind an AI diagnosis.
If you ask AI to figure out what ails you based on inputting a series of symptoms, the AI will use mathematical probability to calculate the appropriate sequence of words that would generate the most valuable output given the specific prompt. The AI has no intrinsic or learned understanding of what “body,” “illness,” “pain,” or “disease” mean. Such practically meaningful concepts to humans are, to the bot, just letters encountered in the training set frequently paired with other letters.
New research on AI’s lack of medical reasoning
Recently, a team of researchers set out to investigate whether AIs that achieved near-perfect accuracy on medical benchmarks like MedQA actually reasoned through medical problems or simply exploited statistical patterns in their training data. If doctors and patients more widely rely on AI tools for diagnosis, it becomes critical to understand the capability of AI when faced with novel clinical scenarios.
The researchers took 100 questions from MedQA, a standard dataset of multiple-choice medical questions collected from professional medical board exams, and replaced the original correct answer choice with “None of the other answers.” If the AI was simply pattern-matching to its training data, the change should prove devastating to its accuracy. On the other hand, if there was reasoning behind its answers the negative effect should be minimal.
Sure enough, they found that when an AI was faced with a question that deviates from the familiar answer patterns it was trained on, there was a substantive decline in accuracy, from 80% to 42% accuracy. This is because AI today are still just probability calculators, not artful thinkers.
Artful medical practitioners see, hear, feel, and recognize medical conditions in ways they are often not consciously aware of. While an AI would be thrown off by an unfamiliar description of symptoms, good doctors listen to the specific word choices of patients and try to understand. They appreciate how societal factors can impact health, trusting both their own intuitions and those of the patient. They pay close attention to all the presenting symptoms in an open-minded manner, as opposed to algorithmically placing the patient in a generic diagnostic box.
Healing is more than a single task
And yet, algorithmic supremacists are as confident as ever in their belief that human healthcare providers will be replaced by machines. In 2016, at the Machine Learning and Market for Intelligence Conference in my hometown of Toronto, Geoffrey Hinton took the mic to confidently assert: “If you work as a radiologist, you are like Wile E. Coyote in the cartoon. You’re already over the edge of the cliff, but you haven’t yet looked down … People should stop training radiologists now. It’s just completely obvious that in five years deep learning is going to do better than radiologists.”
Seven years later, well past the five-year deadline, Kevin Fischer, CEO of Open Souls, attacked Hinton’s erroneous AI prediction, explaining how tech boosters home in on a single behavior against some task and then extrapolate broader implications based on that single task alone. The reality is that reducing any job, especially a wildly complex job that requires a decade of training, to a handful of tasks is absurd.
As Fischer explains, radiologists have a 3D world model of the brain and its physical dynamics in their head, which they use when interpreting the results of a scan. An AI tasked with analysis is simply performing 2D pattern recognition. Furthermore, radiologists have a host of grounded models they use to make determinations, and, when they think artfully, one of the most important is whether something “feels” off. A large part of their job is communicating their findings with fellow human physicians. Further, human radiologists need to see only a single example of a rare and obscure condition to both remember it and identify it in the future, unlike algorithms, which struggle with what to do with statistical outliers.
So, by all means, use whatever tools you can access to help your wellness. But be mindful of the difference between a medical calculator and an artful thinker.
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How Artificial Intelligence is Redefining Business Process Automation

In today’s fast-paced economy, businesses are under constant pressure to operate more efficiently while reducing costs and improving customer experiences. Automation has long been a solution, but traditional methods such as simple scripts or rigid workflows often fall short in terms of adaptability and intelligence. This is where artificial intelligence comes into play. By partnering with an Artificial Intelligence Development Company, organizations can unlock new opportunities for smarter decision-making, streamlined operations, and scalable growth.
The growing interest in AI-driven automation reflects its role as a key enabler of digital transformation. Unlike conventional automation, AI systems can analyze large datasets, learn from patterns, and make predictions that allow businesses to stay competitive in increasingly dynamic markets.
Why AI for Business Process Automation
Traditional automation methods—such as scripts or Robotic Process Automation (RPA)—are useful for handling repetitive, rule-based tasks. However, they lack flexibility and cannot adapt to new or changing conditions without manual intervention. Artificial intelligence takes automation a step further by enabling systems to learn, adapt, and improve over time.
Through machine learning and advanced data analytics, AI can identify hidden patterns, make predictions, and support real-time decision-making. This makes it possible not only to automate processes but also to optimize them dynamically, driving more value than traditional approaches.
Key Areas of Application
Finance
AI enables faster and more secure payment processing, advanced transaction analysis, and fraud detection systems that continuously learn to recognize suspicious patterns.
Marketing and Sales
From demand forecasting and personalized customer experiences to intelligent chatbots, AI helps companies better understand their audience and increase conversion rates.
Manufacturing and Logistics
AI-powered tools streamline supply chain management, predict equipment maintenance needs, and reduce downtime, ensuring smoother operations and higher efficiency.
Human Resources (HR)
Recruitment processes are enhanced through automated resume screening, predictive analysis of employee retention, and data-driven insights for workforce planning.
Advantages of Implementation
The implementation of AI in business processes brings several clear advantages. One of the most significant is cost reduction: by automating repetitive, labor-intensive tasks, companies can cut manual rework and optimize resource allocation, which lowers operating expenses without sacrificing quality. AI also accelerates processes, as models are capable of handling large data streams in near real time.
This speed translates into faster approvals, more efficient routing, more accurate forecasting, and quicker customer responses, all of which shorten cycle times. Another key benefit is error minimization. With advanced pattern recognition and anomaly detection, AI reduces human error, ensures data consistency, and helps stabilize performance metrics across workflows.
Finally, AI offers unmatched flexibility and scalability. Systems continuously learn from new data, allowing them to adapt to changing rules and business volumes, while cloud-native deployments make it possible to scale operations seamlessly as demand increases.
Potential Challenges
Despite these benefits, businesses face certain challenges when adopting AI automation. Costs and timelines are among the first hurdles. The discovery phase, data preparation, model training, and integration require significant upfront investment, and success often depends on a phased delivery approach to manage risk.
Data quality is another critical factor. If the available data is incomplete, biased, or siloed, the outcomes will inevitably suffer. Strong governance, robust cleaning pipelines, and continuous monitoring are necessary to maintain reliable results. Ethical and legal considerations must also be addressed.
Organizations need to ensure that their AI solutions operate with transparency, fairness, and respect for privacy, while remaining fully compliant with regulatory standards and internal policies.
Conclusion
AI-driven automation is now a core lever of competitiveness, improving speed, accuracy, and margins while enabling adaptive operations. Start small, pick a high-impact process, validate with a pilot, then scale iteratively with robust data governance and clear ROI checkpoints.
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AI to Disrupt Stocks, Force Investors to adopt Bitcoin — Analyst

Bitcoin (BTC) will be a better investment than stocks in the coming decades due to artificial intelligence speeding up innovation cycles, making public companies inefficient investment vehicles, analyst and investor Jordi Visser predicted.
“If the innovation cycle is now sped up to weeks, we are in a video game where your company never hits escape velocity, and in that world, how do you invest? You don’t invest, you trade,” Visser told Anthony Pompliano on Saturday. He also said:
“Bitcoin is a belief. Beliefs last longer than ideas. There are no companies in the S&P 500 from 100 BC; gold has been around since then. Bitcoin will be around for a long, long time. It’s a belief at this point, and people can fight it, but it’s going to be around.
I think you want to start shorting ideas, and you want to be long beliefs,” Visser continued, adding that AI may compress what normally would have taken 100 years to accomplish in only five years.
The prediction sheds light on the potential future of finance and capital structures, as artificial intelligence and blockchain technology disrupt the legacy financial system, driving more value and participants to the digital economy.
Related: Bitcoin faces a fee crisis that threatens network security: Can BTCfi help?
Eric Trump predicts $1M BTC as public companies adopt crypto
Companies continue buying crypto and Bitcoin directly as treasury reserve assets, often rebranding as pure crypto treasury plays and dumping their legacy business models.
These legacy financial vehicles provide equity investors with indirect exposure to BTC and crypto, while siphoning funds from traditional capital markets to digital finance.
Eric Trump predicted Bitcoin would hit $1 million per coin, telling the audience at the Bitcoin Asia 2025 conference in Hong Kong that nation-states, wealthy families, and public companies are all buying BTC.
Bitcoin’s market capitalization is over $2.1 trillion at the time of this writing, with some analysts predicting that it will overtake gold’s market cap over the coming decades.
The digital asset’s cross-border nature and ability to earn yield through deployment in decentralized finance (DeFi) applications give it a competitive advantage over gold as a store of value, some crypto industry executives have argued.
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