Medical AI lacks reliable benchmarks — science struggles to keep pace

The development of two medical AI assistants has highlighted a critical challenge: the technology is advancing faster than the methods used to evaluate it. Researchers have yet to establish reliable benchmarks for measuring whether AI systems genuinely work in healthcare settings. A paper published in Nature warns that the absence of proper evaluation tools poses a serious risk to the safe deployment of medical AI.

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