As AI capabilities advance in complex medical scenarios that doctors face on a daily basis, the technology remains controversial in medical communities.
About 70 percentage points better than my doctor. Nice!
Yeah, medicine is one of the areas where I really feel like AI could make serious strides. Most people don’t have a doctor they see regularly anyway so any input would be welcome. Anecdotally I’ve known several people who were misdiagnosed or just had doctors not believe them.
Of course I’d want to be able to escalate and have different treatment options but I could probably be ok with AI-assisted medicine.
That’s a whole 22% better than a coin toss!!!
I don’t use ChatGPT and ain’t planning to, but someone should try asking it something like…
“How often should a male change their tampon?”
See what, if any nonsense it regurgitates.
Now I’m no expert, but if you’re bleeding from your penis or your anus, you should probably go see a doctor about that.
“Men do not typically use tampons since they are designed for menstruation, which is a female biological process. If you have specific questions about personal hygiene or healthcare, it’s best to consult with a medical professional who can provide guidance based on your individual needs and circumstances.”
Okay then, well go figure. I was guessing it would puke up some nonsense, but apparently not.
You know it’s free to use right? You can play around with it yourself and see what it can do
I mean if the AI takes women seriously then that’s honestly already better than most of the doctors I’ve had
To allow ChatGPT or comparable AI models to be deployed in hospitals, Succi said that more benchmark research and regulatory guidance is needed, and diagnostic success rates need to rise to between 80% and 90%.
Sucks if your one of the 10-20% who don’t get proper treatment (maybe die?) because some doctor doesn’t have time to double check. But hey … efficiency!
Ya that’s a fundamental misunderstanding of percentages. For an analogous situation with which we’re all more intuitively familiar, a self driving car that is 99.9% accurate in detecting obstacles crashes into one in one thousand people and/or things. That sucks.
Also, most importantly, LLMs are incapable of collaboration, something very important in any complex human endeavor but difficult to measures, and therefore undervalued by our inane, metrics-driven business culture. Chatgpt won’t develop meaningful, mutually beneficial relationships with its colleagues, who can ask each other for their thoughts when they don’t understand something. It’ll just spout bullshit when it’s wrong, not because it doesn’t know, but because it has no concept of knowing at all.
It really needs to be pinned to the top of every single discussion around chatgbt:
It does not give answers because it knows. It gives answers because it thinks it looks right.
Remember back in school when you didn’t study for a test and went through picking answers that “looked right” because you vaguely remember hearing the words in Answer B during class at some point?
It will never have wisdom and intuition from experience, and that’s critically important for doctors.
