"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
I used to look forward to emails from Oxford about new textbooks coming out and emerging fields of research.
Now they send me this fucking attrocity of an email about an event for AI "innovation" simulation in Healthcare, generating studies.
It took me a mere 148ms to unsubscribe, the only reason the date isn't censored is because I hope somebody attends and makes a ruckus. FUCK YOU OUP.
I went to visit my GP about a year ago and he said something like "We're trialling this AI thing that's going to listen to our conversation if that's ok".
I like the guy and understand that most people don't really understand tech so I said something like "I'd prefer we disabled it if that's ok". He reacted as though I'd asked to finger his butt hole.
I spared him the following rant but... I just don't understand why anyone would actually want that. I want a doctor that listens to me when I talk to him. If he actually remembered me and kind of got to know me over the years that would be a bonus but it's not really necessary.
I just want to talk to a human and have that human listen to me.
I do not want an LLM to listen in and prompt the GP to refer me to their in-house dietician because I mentioned I'm feeling a bit flat.
This is exactly how I see adults whenever they talk with excitement about replacing brain-powered work with AI prompting. Sometimes they begin a sentence and I see a spark in their fucking eyes knowing exactly that the sentence is going to segue into "(...) and then smirks I opened ChatGPT and (...)".
ai has been used in health care for like 15 years. it's not the same ai as the current bubble is about.
It literally says "How academic research can be simulated", "why some models are more scalable than others", and "Which publications are practically useful, and which ones aren't"
This is not ambiguous, it's talking about trash chatbot GenAI and LLMs.
When I said in the title these assbots have killed people because of their use in healthcare, I was not exagerating. Physicians have been misinformed leading to punctured arteries then disability or death.
...how did you get llms from that? simulation is part of academic research, all machine learning systems use models, and it could just as well refer to useful "for the purposes of the simulation".
was there more info of the event?