Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Interviewing and Company Culture
by bsder on Thursday October 06, 2016 @08:10PM
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Computers are better at diagnosing when the problem is very specific or low/counter-probability.
So, let's take heart attack diagnoses in emergency rooms--a fixed procedure laid down by following statistics is WAY better than human judgement.
Generalized abdominal pain--computers aren't so good. There are a lot of possibilities and most of them are about equal. The doctor is more likely to tease out the problem over time through conversational randomness.
Some obscure genetic disease--a computer is going to be FEROCIOUSLY better than a human. A computer can keep all of those .00001% options in mind as tests and diagnoses rule out the far more common problems until the low-probability things pop up into statistical relevance.
So, let's take heart attack diagnoses in emergency rooms--a fixed procedure laid down by following statistics is WAY better than human judgement.
Generalized abdominal pain--computers aren't so good. There are a lot of possibilities and most of them are about equal. The doctor is more likely to tease out the problem over time through conversational randomness.
Some obscure genetic disease--a computer is going to be FEROCIOUSLY better than a human. A computer can keep all of those .00001% options in mind as tests and diagnoses rule out the far more common problems until the low-probability things pop up into statistical relevance.