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[–] trachemys@iusearchlinux.fyi 18 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.

[–] Pixlbabble@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Meet our Insurance agent FloBot.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] eltimablo@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago
[–] gressen@lemmy.world 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.

[–] trachemys@iusearchlinux.fyi 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.

[–] Geek_King@lemmy.world 13 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.

[–] Pixlbabble@lemmy.world 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.

[–] Ski@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

autodoc! I really enjoyed their implementation in The Expanse.

[–] mikkL@lemmy.world 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.

[–] jsveiga@sh.itjust.works 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.

[–] electronicoldman@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] Pixlbabble@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How long before we're governed by Ai?

[–] QHC@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

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

[–] electronicoldman@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] Czorio@kbin.social 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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