> What will be lacking is the automation of data collection, because you seem to underestimate by far the technical, legal, and ethical difficulties in getting the appropriate feedback to make ML appliances efficient. I firmly believe in reinforcement learning, and as long as the feedback system will be insufficient, doctors will prevail, highly-paid jerks or not.
We're already seeing a significant rise in the role of nurse practitioners at the front line of medicine. Today, they gather the data and hand it to an MD, so handing it off to an ML system would be straightforward.
We're already seeing a significant rise in the role of nurse practitioners at the front line of medicine. Today, they gather the data and hand it to an MD, so handing it off to an ML system would be straightforward.