United Kingdom, May 1 -- A new Harvard study has found that AI outperforms doctors in high-pressure medical situations.

The groundbreaking new research discovered that the tech performed better than human medics in high-pressure emergency medicine triage - diagnosing more accurately in the possible life-or-death moments when people first arrive in hospital.

Independent experts described the results as showing "a genuine step forward" in the clinical reasoning of AIs and came as part of trials that tested the responses of hundreds of doctors against an AI system.

The authors of the study say the findings show that large language models (LLMs) "have eclipsed most benchmarks of clinical reasoning".

One experiment focused on 76 patients w...