Google researcher: general capabilities plus tool use are displacing domain-specific medical AI
davidstutz92 · x · 2026-10-14
Google researcher David Stutz, responding to the AMIE clinical study results, argues that general capabilities coupled with tool use will be the biggest driver of progress in health and science. Over four years he worked on dermatology AI, Med-Gemini, the AMIE diagnostic dialogue agent, and most recently a co-clinician system — and notes new model generations have repeatedly opened new directions in health while deprecating much domain-specific modeling work.
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