It’s not fair to the doctor, but it’s better for the patient.

A robot doesn't have more resources, but it effectively has unlimited time to consider every branch.

The patient they're diagnosing, however, might not.

I wrote "consider" because that doesn't need to involve the patient.

But also the patient usually has plenty of time to answer additional questions. You can cover a ton of ground in less than an hour.

“I’ve considered all the options for three months. You have a rare cancer that will kill you in… uh oh.”

Patient doesn’t have to be sitting in the exam room to run out of time.

What I meant is that the computer can do three months of considering in less than five minutes real time. That's the benefit of tossing raw processing power at things.

That’s the point. Time and parallelization is cheap for machines.

I can see a short term future where “doctors” are replaced with non-doctor medical personal who gather data. Blood draws, temperature checks, collecting stool samples, photographing lesions, these are all easier with two hands. Analyzing the data will be done for the masses by machine.

And of course because of how the USA healthcare system works, it will somehow manage to be evens more expensive.