New Delhi, May 4 -- A new Harvard study has found that advanced AI models can outperform doctors in diagnosing patients, including in high-pressure emergency room (ER) scenarios. The researchers pitted OpenAI's advanced o1 language model directly against hundreds of physicians across multiple diagnostic touchpoints, finding that the AI consistently outperformed doctors in both diagnosing conditions and planning clinical management.

The new research, published in the journal Science, gave 76 clinical cases from the emergency room of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to OpenAI's o1 model and two expert attending physicians.

The researchers found that o1 performed on par with or significantly better than the human experts on a variety o...