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[–] ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world 44 points 3 months ago

Hey Hoffman, remember the sneezes you had in succession last winter for 2 weeks straight? I asked chatgpt and tells me is brain cancer. Are you going to start cancer therapy ASAP?

PS: for the people that still remember WebMD at the start, they would never trust a machine for full diagnosis, let alone considering this as an option

[–] rem26_art@fedia.io 32 points 3 months ago

Reid Hoffman: the original LinkedIn Lunatic

[–] Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 3 months ago

"Sir, you seem to be low on vitamin C, which gave you scurvy, but Grok says that it is more likely to be an psychosomatic response to an internal conflict between the way you live your life, and the Hitler inside you waiting to be let out"

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

Image recognition to help radiologists find tumors is probably fine; especially since you can usually run those models locally.

These morons think ChatGPT is “conscious” and “was trained on humanity’s collective knowledge”. THAT is the problem with ~~AI Derangement Syndrome~~

EDIT: aw fuck let’s not use that acronym

[–] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

AI (statistical predictive models) work best when it's designed for a specific purpose and when the model is too challenging to derive by hand. Detecting tumors is a specific purpose, and doing so manually is challenging enough that it requires specific training. It gets a pass by me.

Predicting protein structures/drug effects: specific purpose, check. Doing it manually, yep, very challenging. Good use of AI.

LLM chatbot: purpose is unclear. Making a non-AI-based chatbot is easy and has been done before. Verdict: useless technology

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[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There are a bunch of studies that in general show there is an effect where, despite what people say and think, they inevitably start to offload decision making to AI inappropriately and it eventually makes them worse. Harvard did a study specifically around radiologists, interestingly enough.

The "only use it as an aid" seems to be a myth.

To me it seems very similar to cocaine.

[–] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 6 points 3 months ago

If you aren't conscious its easy to think chatgpt is

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[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Literal blatant HIPPA violation, giving personal medical info to AI companies in exchange for useless and dangerous advice

[–] Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The worst part is that HIPAA has actually already allowed AI companies to do this. Epic EHR software now has built in AI chart summary support as well as AI dictation where the patient is recorded throughout the visit by the AI agent. Somone has decided that feeding patient's PHI and voice into an AI company's black box is somehow acceptable healthcare practice and has actively implemented it in physical healthcare facilities.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

We should be able to opt out of this shit

[–] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 5 points 3 months ago

Why? Just because it's evil and dangerous and stupid and useless and will make shit up? Does Anyone who matters give a shit about any of that why would they?

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[–] StillAlive@piefed.world 19 points 3 months ago

Context: Coding in medical nomenclature refers to code blue (life threatening emergency)

[–] halfapage@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

"Of course it's lupus! You are absolutely correct!"

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 months ago

I would love to see an LLM doctor trained only on the TV show House.

[–] binux@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago

Did you try the medicine drug?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

It is very curious rhetorical move from:

If your doctor isn't using AI, they are incompetent and awful and should be considered malpractice

to

We shouldn't be forcing these Big Government Regulations on the itty bitty small bean doctors who just want to help people

Techno-Libertarianism in a nutshell. It is never a serious analysis of best practices and procedures. Always some hollow appeal to legalism out of one side of the mouth and denouncement of bureaucracy out of the other. And all in pursuit of selling a new line of magic fucking beans to the rubes.

Counting the days until Dr. Oz is talking about LLMs like he talks about ginseng and acai berry juice.

[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I check it out once in a while to see what's going on, and the OpenAI people apparently seemed to try to fix the sycophancy problem by turning it into an insufferable pedant.

"I want to check... you should put pants on before leaving the house, right?"

"That's not exactly right. Putting pants on involves putting your legs into the leg holes in the pants. After that you should zip and button any zips and buttons on your pants."

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I hope his doctor does ask Chat GPT and it prescribes him a penectomy.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

Another one?

[–] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Older adults have always made a fool of themselves when new tech comes out as they scramble over each other to either voice dramatically out-of-touch opinions or avoid it entirely while preaching moral panic. This time around with AI, there's not a big financial barrier to access so the youth are equally in on the game.

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[–] NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 months ago

I had a very entertaining time asking search engine AI about various bacteria when writing an open book exam.

Ask how X bacteria acts in the oral cavity, and the AI summary calls it a beneficial species

Ask how X bacteria relates to periodontal disease, and the AI summary tells you it is a pathogen of utmost importance.

It answers solely based on how you pose the question and does not even provide an accurate summary of the websites it purports to have used as sources.

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago

The number of competent experts who are impressed by an LLM wielded in their specified field, is as vanishingly infinitesimal as legitimate and justifiable invocations of the term ‘AI’.

Those who have expressed the greatest enthusiasm for ‘AI’ are typically the farthest removed from actual, nuanced comprehension.

It’s a grift economy built on statistically luke-warm, vibe lobotomised corpses.

[–] h333d@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Kenny2999@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Your comment just caused some who needs FMT to receive bananas instead.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

We should ask AI if tech CEOs are worth keeping around despite the negative impacts of AI construction and implementation.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

A professional using AI as part of your diagnosis is fine.

A professional using AI to diagnose you is not.

To put it another way. If I had a condition, and my doctor used and AI to look through thousands of studies to find a treatment regimen that fits my particular health profile better than the standard treatment and they then review the sources and decide that it would be a safer and more effective option than the standard care, then I'm all for that. If my doctor says "I asked this AI, and it said do this", then I'm definitely not doing "that" until I check in with another doctor.

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[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Elon Musk's AI recommends Ivermectin and anal bleaching, because it's biased. I don't care if what I said was true.

But it is biased.

Imagine doctors using the same AI that convinced that poor, lonely guy to kill himself!

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[–] warbosstodd@piefed.social 5 points 3 months ago

That’s LinkedIn for you. Just corporate felating in the desperate hopes a CEO will notice you

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

You know that technology that suggested a deadly mix of drugs to a teen? The same one that routinely suggests people should kill themselves? Your doctor should ignore their years of medical training and see what spicy autocorrect thinks your treatment should be.

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