Microsoft says its AI tool outperforms generalist doctors in complex diagnoses

Microsoft researchers said in a study that a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can diagnose patients step by step, as a doctor would, was more than twice as accurate as general physicians at solving complex medical cases.The study, published Thursday in Science, said the AI model takes a different approach to diagnosing medical issues than most other models that seek to address those issues.Microsoft said the AI model identifies and coordinates the questions that should be asked of a pa