As AI capabilities advance in complex medical scenarios that doctors face on a daily basis, the technology remains controversial in medical communities.
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.
Medicine is going to take awhile for anything except small-scope tools to handle one specific thing, due to the massive variation in the presentation of different problems that doctors can face.
What won’t take as long, because there isn’t the same inherent variation in presentation, is law.
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.
AI could ultimately improve both the efficiency and the accuracy of diagnosis as healthcare in the U.S. gets more expensive and complicated as individuals live longer, and the overall population ages
When you read some bs on internet but thankfully its US only
Those odds are shit. Meanwhile most of us have zero doctor.
