Broad AI
A system that could handle any task at a human level, not just one. Also called strong AI or general AI. The counterpart to narrow AI, which covers the task-specific tools running everywhere today. Whether broad AI has arrived yet is debated: some researchers count today's leading models as early examples, others say true general capability is still ahead.
A hospitalist who finds the hospital's approved chat assistant reliable for drafting discharge summaries starts using it to check renal dose adjustments, as if a tool this fluent in one clinical task must be equally sound across the rest of medicine. In current systems, skill on one task carries over unevenly, and a wrong dose reads just as fluently as a right one. Before relying on it for a new kind of task, check its answers against a trusted reference on a run of real cases, and confirm that use is within what the hospital approved.
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