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Their wordsThis means that the AI we already have is good enough to address many of our most important clinical problems.
Their wordsEven 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.
Their wordsWhat I hope doesn't happen is that a general antipathy toward AI and AI companies bleeds into a slowdown in the implementation of healthcare tools that can - today - save lives, ease suffering, and improve the lot of both patients and clinicians.
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