Shenzhen-based iFlyTek has been working on its artificial intelligence for four years. As a result, the AI program was able to prepare for the local medical school exams and successfully passed all tests. According to the results of the exam, she was given a doctor's license.
“We were able to do this before IBM Watson! The system we developed independently passed the required exams, becoming the first AI in the world with a level of qualification that is not inferior to a human doctor, one of the members of the iFlyTek Board of Directors boasted.
And there really is something to be proud of. AI iFlyTek Smart Doctor Assistant scored 456 points out of 360 required, but the developers are not going to stop and report that their program is able to learn even more complex things in medicine and in other areas. For example, in jurisprudence.
In the meantime, iFlyTek Smart Doctor Assistant is planned to be applied in an area where it has already shown itself well - they are going to send it to assistants to ordinary doctors, because AI will be able, for example, to analyze huge amounts of data on diseases collected from all over the country much faster, process them and deliver concrete results.
For the sake of fairness, it should be noted that no one has tested the performance of the program, and the performance of iFlyTek and Watson has not yet been compared, but the program really did a good job - you can't argue with that.