The health department has put generative AI into the machinery that decides which medicines Australians will fund, and it claims the benefit is doing the same work more thoroughly in the same amount of time. Not faster. Not cheaper. 'Deeper'. So what's the point if only officials benefit?
If there is a productivity gain in the process, then it should be passed on
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