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@lauren Yeah, I agree. There's definitely a serious conversation to be had about the possibility that the failure mode when this machine fails is worse enough that one shouldn't try an apples to apples comparison between machine and human transcription accuracy.

Cards on the table / where I'm coming from in all of this: I don't exactly advertise it but I'm working on autonomous vehicles these days. So the safety story is omnipresent on my mind, and there has definitely been one horror story I'm aware of where the vehicle failed to realize there was a pedestrian under it and kept going.

... Unfortunately, I hear that story and I weigh it against the stories I'm aware of where a human driver, absolutely panicked about facing consequences (or ignorance they had struck someone, we know that humans don't have as much situational awareness about what's going on outside their car as it feels like we do when we're driving one), made the worst possible decisions for the pedestrian they had injured. So I feel a lot more comfortable doing apples to apples comparisons of autonomous versus human operated vehicle safety.

I might be guilty of assuming things about a field I don't know when I don't cut medical transcription a similar benefit of the doubt to the benefit I cut my own field.