From record store clerks to phone operators and taxi drivers, computers are swiftly proving they can do many jobs at least as well as — or better than — humans.
And there's certainly reason to think that machines could one day overtake humans when it comes to diagnosing disease. Doctors, after all, get medical diagnoses wrong about 15 percent of the time. And the price of those misdiagnoses is human suffering and death.
But just how soon will computers replace flesh-and-blood MDs?
