FDA's AI tool for medical devices struggles with simple tasks

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6. None of the listed complaints are about AI. They are standard complaints about beta software.

Buggy
Doesn't connect to internal systems
Poor support for uploading documents
Poor support for user questions
Can't access latest data from the internet

These are, indeed, "simple tasks" and are readily addressable in mature software systems. Could this new breed of AI systems use a few more years of private industry maturation before the government adopts them? Sure. Does that mean that these types of AI systems are flawed and should be prohibited from government use? No, of course not.

These tools will be used by human experts. This is not an automated approval or regulatory process. Might as well as ask about the ethics of FDA staff using google, a tool that also uses adaptive computer algorithms to find and summarize data.