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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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[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

It is if your software goes anywhere near infrastructure or safety.

Which is literally what musk and the oligarchs were arguing as a way to "fix" Air Traffic Control. And that is far from the first time tech charlatans have wanted to "disrupt" an industry.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world -1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Someone who uses stack overflow to solve a problem will be doing testing to confirm it worked as part of an overall development workflow.

Using an LLM as a doctor is like vibe coding, where there is no testing or quality control.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

So... they wouldn't be raw dogging stack overflow? Because raw dogging the code you get from a rando off stack overflow is a bad idea?

Because you can just as easily use generative AI as a component in test driven development. But the people pushing to "make coders more efficient" are looking at firing people. And they continue to not want to add the guard rails that would mean they fire 1 engineer instead of 5.