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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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[–] XLE@piefed.social 2 points 9 hours ago

You're definitely right that image processing AI does not work in a linear manner like how text processing does, but the training and inferences are similarly fuzzy and prone to false positives and negatives. (An early AI model incorrectly identified dogs as wolves because they saw a white background and assumed that that was where wolves would be.) And unless the model starts and stays perfect, you need well-trained doctors to fix it, which apparently the model discourages.