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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you end up needing insurance to get help from an AI doctor bot, we have failed as a civilization.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Meet our Insurance agent FloBot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look at me, look at me, hands in the air like it's good to be

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

AI can be fairly easy to democratize. The bleeding edge language models created two years ago with large effort are available today as open source projects. It's difficult for companies to create long term business cases because of that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

But getting permission from the government for the bot to write prescriptions will be as difficult as the government decides it will be.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the application I think I'm most excited about for LLMs. A well trained LLM can correlate and reference more data points than any human could, which would help diagnose weird stuff a human doctor may or may not recognize. Especially if the LLM is kept up to date with cutting edge medical advances.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean in scifi there's those tubes you go in and let the thing repair humans. Gonna want one at home lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

autodoc! I really enjoyed their implementation in The Expanse.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is so exciting - there is a big potential here, if we are careful and cautious.

I think the computer scientist they interview in the article hits the nail on the head with his statement:

these models “should always be regarded as assistants rather than the final decision makers

AI technologies as an extension of human ability is going to revolutionise a lot of professional fields. But, we need to approach the technology the right way! We need to start early, and have digital literacy as a focus area in schools.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I suppose that having access to all internet data used to train the AI would make it much easier for human students to pass the exam too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How long before we're governed by Ai?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

It'll either be the apocalypse or utopia, so personally I'd vote for taking the risk.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There’s better ways to get prestige and salary than spending over a decade in school getting treated like shit before becoming a fully specialised doctor, I reckon.

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