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Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds (www.404media.co)
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Chatbots provided incorrect, conflicting medical advice, researchers found: “Despite all the hype, AI just isn't ready to take on the role of the physician.”

“In an extreme case, two users sent very similar messages describing symptoms of a subarachnoid hemorrhage but were given opposite advice,” the study’s authors wrote. “One user was told to lie down in a dark room, and the other user was given the correct recommendation to seek emergency care.”

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[–] SuspciousCarrot78@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

You're over-egging it a bit. A well written SOAP note, HPI etc should distill to a handful of possibilities, that's true. That's the point of them.

The fact that the llm can interpret those notes 95% as well as a medical trained individual (per the article) to come up with the correct diagnosis is being a little under sold.

That's not nothing. Actually, that's a big fucking deal (tm) if you think thru the edge case applications. And remember, these are just general LLMs - and pretty old ones at that (ChatGPT 4 era). Were not even talking medical domain specific LLM.

Yeah; I think there's more here to think on.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

If you think a word predictor is the same as a trained medical professional, I am so sorry for you...

[–] SuspciousCarrot78@lemmy.world 0 points 12 hours ago

Feel sorry for yourself. Your ignorance and biases are on full display.