Matthew Castle, a physician in England, published “Burnout,” an essay in which he projected himself as an AI machine doctor in 2100. He had plenty of deep learning intelligence, complete molecular and neuropsychiatric profiling of each patient, command of the entire biomedical literature, and the ability to perform thousands of simultaneous consultations. With all that data and AI, you’d think everything would be utopian, but the company he works for is demanding humanistic qualities. He winds up with burnout and requests a six-month sabbatical because “the problem is your requirement to
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