It's a bit different, because a search engine can give you 0 results. An AI is trained on getting the most correct answers so it always guesses, it's the best way to score on an evaluation

Please don't take them entirely away. Maybe just internet access? 30ish years had to do accounting by hand. In those green ledgers. It took approximately twelve times longer to do it by hand than to do it with a computer. And it made me shrimp like 5 times worse. I needed an architect's table what angled the top of it in order to work properly but I could neither get one supplied by the employer nor afford to give one to the employer.

Not all technology is bad

I don’t get how some of these tech company CEOs who came up as engineers can be pushing this bullshit. I get once the company got big they started hiring business bros. But some big companies still have CEOs that were once engineers. You’d think they would know better.

This is a really bad idea.

First because healthcare is clearly being gatekept from people.

Second, because even if you go to a healthcare professional nowadays, there is no guarantee that that person is not a fucking idiot that doesn’t believe in vaccines. I can’t believe I have to actually ask people before they touch me if they believe in vaccines or not and then tell them to not come back into my room if they answer that they don’t believe in science. But that has happened and it has happened to the people I’ve taken care of and because of this now healthcare can’t be trusted.

The LLM is not any worse than that. In fact, I would say that it’s already too cautious. No way the model is ever going to tell me vaccines are bad. It’s not going to tell me to take a poison to clear Covid. It’s not going to tell me to drink bleach like the president did. It’s literally not any worse than the bullshit we are dealing with all day every fucking day.

And I’m getting to the point that if you’re a full grown human fucking being and you’re going to believe something if it tells you to drink fucking bleach or swallow a fucking lightbulb then that’s nature saying something about you.

In other words, Artificial Stupidity. Why is it CALLED intelligent?

It does think, just not very logically.

To put it another way, it's like we figured out how to give machines an intuition via Machine Learning. So you've got a machine with an intuition trained on all written text that is not literal gibberish, but by default all they know how to do is shoot from the hip with their intuition, and the only feedback they get for whether they said the right thing is whether the human they're chatting with approves of what they say.

It's a bullshitter to the extreme because that was how we built the incentive structure. And now they use the bullshitters to train better bullshitters.

Is it any surprise that business executives think that these are the ultimate in intelligence? All they do is bullshit.

Are you in the US? My take away here is American healthcare is bad but we're treating the symptom not the disease.

Wait, he thought he could sit that pain through at home? Your son is tough as nails. Give him a hug for me and everyone else who's had that four day n-g tube delight.

But the thing is, it should be a tool - carefully used - to enhance the existing profession, not replace actual professionals.

except in practice, the "professionals" just take the LLM's word as unassailable and disengage their brains. funny that, the gap between theory and reality

Agreed. It's never about protection, just covert exploitation

Name checks out.

Section 230 of the dmca is designed to allow platforms to exist because people can say whatever the fuck they want. But nobody should make a machine that says things they can't control, and if you do you need to be disciplined for such irresponsibility.

The law would allow you to sue whoever is running the chatbot. If you run your own LLM locally and take bad advice from it, then it's your own fault.

LLMs and chatbots should not be giving medical advice. You are afraid of the private healthcare system, not the lack of access to the most janky bandaid fix for its failures.

Most of the medical information coming up these days is garbage and you should be going to a known, reputable site and searching their database. LLMs have been trained on absolute garbage. There is nothing of value being kept from anyone here.

'Should I use one teaspoon of salt in this recipe, or two?'

Two is ideal.

'Do dogs like chicken wings?'

Wild dogs regularly hunt small animals like hare or chicken for food.

One of these answers results in a bad cake, the other results in a hurt dog. Potentially inaccurate answers aren't much of a problem when the stakes are low, but even a simple question about what to feed a pet could end with a negative outcome.

it's worse. In 4D it's even worser

Having potentially inaccurate resources might be better than nothing, or is that worse?

You pick up a mushroom in the forest and take it home. If you have no information, do you eat it? If something tells you it's safe do you eat it?

No, misinformation is worse.

If you’re going to be your own lawyer or perform a bit of self surgery, there is no way the AI is helping that situation. Especially if the inherent nature of AI is to validate everything you say.

There are billions being sunk into AI. How much health care could that buy? Your logic only makes sense if AI is free. It's not.

the AI devices will just have preambles and disclaimers and word things in ways to refer the user to human resources

We had a medical scare just yesterday. I was in the ER for 8 hours with my partner over a non-life-threatening but still emergency problem.

An ultrasound, cat scan, and much poking and prodding later, we still don't know what is up. The AI was at least able to predict next steps (if A then discharge and follow up with PCP, if B then surgery this week, if C then emergency surgery), something the ER was too busy to do for several hours. It was reassuring. The AI also gave me (working) links to more thorough resources on the topic.

Sir did you pay for that medical advice though? That's what these laws will eventually enforce. Prescription advice.