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The Fragility of Progress: A Technical Deep Dive into Microsoft's Research paper, the "Illusion of Readiness" in Multimodal Health AI Benchmarking
The Microsoft Research paper, "The Illusion of Readiness: Stress Testing Large Frontier Models on Multimodal Medical Benchmarks", delivers a strategic and technical indictment of the current methodology used to evaluate Large Frontier Models (LFMs) in healthcare. The central conclusion is that high scores achieved by leading systems, such as GPT-5, on static medical benchmarks cultivate a misleading "illusion of readiness" for high-stakes clinical deployment.
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