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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 49 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Jesus fuck. As someone who works in biotech: this is probably going to kill people.

[–] UsoSaito@feddit.uk 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Like why don't we just have ACTUAL DOCTORS and techs trained to do this actually test it. Wild concept I know.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 1 points 19 hours ago

Because it costs money to educate the doctors, then they want money.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s ok they’re replacing the doctors with LLMs now it’ll be fine I promise

[–] boomzilla@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yesterday on reddit I saw a photo a patient shot over the shoulder of his doctor of his computer monitor. It had ChadGPT full with diagnosis requests.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1keqstk/doctor_using_chatgpt_for_a_visit_due_to_knife_cut/

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Doctors cost money and the money goes to doctors. LLMs cost less and the money goes to billionaire fascist techbros. The fact that they're not fit for purpose is insignificant compared to the potential for techbro enrichment.

Also, doctors have an annoying habit of helping people to live regardless of whether techbro eugenics says they deserve to.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ignorance is bliss homie...

https://afresearchlab.com/news/department-of-the-air-force-launches-niprgpt/

People really don't want to know how much AI is being shoved down the government's and military's throats these days.

It ain't even just a musk/trump thing, most of it was put in motion under Biden, but now idiots are running with it.

Like, who the fuck really wants the space force using a closeted version of the same consumer level chatbot coding shit?

Fucking no one who understands anything about any of this, but the people calling the shots believe the hype.

So ignorance is bliss.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

They don't care though, if anything it's more money for the medical profit machine.

[–] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ah great, horrors beyond my imagination.

[–] Womble@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

He could see AI being used more immediately to address certain “low-hanging fruit,” such as checking for application completeness. “Something as trivial as that could expedite the return of feedback to the submitters based on things that need to be addressed to make the application complete,” he says. More sophisticated uses would need to be developed, tested, and proved out.

Oh no, the dystopian horror...

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

LLMs also do a lot of mistakes even when used for text analysis, and as the tech sector loves the "move fast and break things" mantra, it'll be put into practice much earlier than it should be.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Turns out Umbrella Corp was an AI company that pivoted?

[–] Eggyhead@fedia.io 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If it’s trained carefully, professionally, responsibly, with bonafide medical research data exclusively, I can see it being a boon to healthcare professionals. I just don’t know if I can trust that will happen in the timeline we live in.

[–] gndagreborn@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Open evidence is a legit tool my colleagues and classmates use every day. Open AI is leagues behind them especially in terms of HIPAA compliance.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

I hate this timeline.

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago

damn i see that chatbots don't want to stay behind rfk jr in body count

will they learn that safety regulations are written in blood? who am i kidding, that's not their blood

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Most PCs no longer have floppy disk readers or CD drives, where are they going to put the placebo or drugs in. /s