One thing AI can’t replace (at least not yet)? Doctors’ intuition: Although AI is being developed to assist medical professionals synthesize information and medical data, it hasn’t been — and potentially cannot be — trained to be as effective as an experienced doctor’s intuition, which is built on years of knowledge and expertise, according to a study.

Years of experience dealing with the ill is the underlying source of this sixth sense that can often predict the outcome of a patient’s condition, explains National Geographic. This is especially in the case in fields like emergency medicine, and surgery, where intuition is a decisive factor in ‘predicting’ the result of an operation or assessing the survival of a patient.

We’re not saying we should toss out all our medical textbooks in favor of a gut feeling. Using a three-pronged approach of clinical data (provided by technology such as AI), the patients’ individual feelings about their illness, and a physician’s intuition would be the ideal method to ensure the best outcome for the patient.

SIGN OF THE TIMES- Teenage girls are shaping the contemporary English language:Shakespeare and Dickens may have been the linguistic maestros of yesteryear, but women are now responsible for up to 90% of linguistic changes, according to sociolinguist William Labov, who said that women tend to be linguistically ahead of men “ by a full generation.”

Women have historically been innovating — or, at the very least, quick to adopt — trendy lingo: Even Queen Elizabeth I was a linguistic rebel, introducing the word “does” to replace “doth,” a linguist at the University of Helsinki in Finland told National Geographic. With the advent of social media, new phrases and terms (think Swiftie, situationship, girl math, rizz, and all those other things you hear the youths saying) are being adopted a lot quicker. While language previously ran through 80-year transition periods, we’re now seeing our vernacular changing on a yearly basis, National Geographic says.

Why is it that women are verbal and linguistic pioneers? For starters, the majority of people are taught language by their mothers as primary caregivers. Women’s heightened social awareness and exposure to diverse language also makes them more likely to partake in linguistic innovation and advancement, according to language expert Gretchen McCulloch, which then allows that innovation to be passed along.

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