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Anybody watch house MD? There is an episode where house factors in race in a medical decision and explains why that is a good idea, the patient refuses to take the medicine for "blacks" and insists ont getting the "good shit" until house tricks him into taking it.
I'm not a doctor and not saying there is not plenty of racism in medicine (and therefore training data), but instructing medical "AI" to ignore race would be potentially wrong as well. How would you even prompt that? "Treat every patient the same regardless of ethnicity and religion" would not really work as outlined above. Also there is no training data that is without bias, as there are no humans without bias. All we can do is develop continually learning ai and start catching the wrong decisions and correcting them to achieve the goal of LLMs making better decisions than humans ever will.
I don't think we should use House, or any TV show, as a guiding tool or example for actual real life medicine.
This is a great exercise for a layman in what this bot did and why it wasn't as big a deal as what's being made in the headline.