Even if no new models are released for several years, healthcare will still require that much time to absorb existing AI tools.

Even if not a single new model were released in the next few years, it would take that much time for healthcare to build sensible local governance, to agree on and adopt reasonable regulations, to work through the politics and changes in the payment system, to retool our training programs, and to see which of the hundreds of AI companies vying for a place in healthcare's ecosystem survive.