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The replacing part is the problem. Using a local system to help is fine, but it still requires humans who know what they're doing and what they're looking at.
Sometimes, for example human + AI systems used to be better than either one in isolation, but chess AI improved so much that the human partner is actually not helping anymore
But chess is an isolated "system" with clear rules. Reality and especially medicine is so much more complicated.
Chess strategy is extremely complicated and probably will never be completely solved. It will be almost solved like checkers eventually when programs will just draw vs. each other or a white win is found
But we will never actually simulate all games since the number of chess games dwarfs the number of atoms in the universe. So in that sense we will never know what the "correct" move is outside of table base or mate situations. Medicine may actually be less complicated to a machine.
Bu the only benchmark should be "how good the humans are at a task" since you're not trying to be perfect. You only have to provide better results than the current system.
But the point is you can actually calculate everything and have all the information. Medicine is always about incomplete information, either because the data isn't there or certain things aren't even known.
It doesn’t replace any individual directly. It improves one person’s capability to the extent that there may be fewer needed to do a job. And that’s not a bad thing in my opinion, especially because it can improve the quality of that person’s work at the same time.