Dhaka, Oct. 26 -- Microsoft says its new artificial intelligence system can diagnose patients more accurately than generalist doctors in controlled tests, but questions remain over how it would perform in real healthcare settings, Futurism reports.

The system, called Microsoft AI Diagnostic Orchestrator (MAI-DxO), was assessed in a peer-reviewed study published in the journal Science.

Researchers tested it on 304 medical case reports from the New England Journal of Medicine and 325 emergency department cases from the MIMIC-IV-ED database.

Futurism notes that MAI-DxO scored 83.2 percent accuracy on medical cases and 80.3 percent on emergency cases, compared with doctors' 36.1 percent and 46.8 percent respectively.

The model also reache...