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Show HN: Using GPT-3 and Whisper to save doctors’ time

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Re: Show HN: Using GPT-3 and Whisper to save doctors’ time

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Post by agilob »

v4dok wrote: post #4

I like the idea, but I would like it even more if it was on-prem. The doctors (at least in EU) will be very wary of having their client meeting essentially recorded by a third party. With this as a cloud SaaS, patient confidentiality is essentially broken since the raw data is available to you while you transcribe it. I understand that you compete with "google speech-to-text" but this is not a feature meant to be use…

There are so many regulations and certifications to do that there are no chances anyone will have money and time to do all paperwork to host it on-perm. Because of these regulatory reasons most hospitals use so old systems that it surprises no one to see Windows XP with IE6 there. I had the pleasure myself of fixing a Material Angular bug that wasn't displaying form fields validation correctly in IE6 only 2 years ago, and that was for network of hospitals in Canada, US and Germany. Effort to allow them to use anything newer is too big and there are too many documents to review. It's simply cheaper to keep WinXP and IE6 running for as long as possible.

Re: Show HN: Using GPT-3 and Whisper to save doctors’ time

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Post by mraison »

stopachka wrote: post #3

This is really cool! What surprised you guys about fine-tuning whisper + gpt-3?

Domain specificity is a killer advantage when fine-tuning! For Whisper in particular, fine-tuning with actual medical speech gave us an immediate strong advantage over competing APIs.

Re: Show HN: Using GPT-3 and Whisper to save doctors’ time

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Post by clemailacct1 »

orcajerk wrote: post #6

Last time I went to the doctor, he charged me $300 to google symptoms on a computer. Now you're saying I get to pay $300 for him to ask ChatGPT? No thanks. We all know that is where this is going - doctor decision support system, i.e. the AI has access to information locked behind expensive journals that the patient does not.

The tone of this reply is excessively snarky.

You clearly have a personal bad experience with your doctor - but that doesn’t mean that this potential product is a terrible idea.

Re: Show HN: Using GPT-3 and Whisper to save doctors’ time

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Post by Shared404 »

orcajerk wrote: post #6

Last time I went to the doctor, he charged me $300 to google symptoms on a computer. Now you're saying I get to pay $300 for him to ask ChatGPT? No thanks. We all know that is where this is going - doctor decision support system, i.e. the AI has access to information locked behind expensive journals that the patient does not.

> Last time I went to the doctor, he charged me $300 to google symptoms on a computer.

Would you be upset if someone were to ask you to help with their code and you needed to Google for documentation?

It's not exactly the same thing, but it's a similar situation.

I do tend to agree with you on the rest of your concerns, especially info being used that the patient has no way to verify - but that seems tangential at worst to the product in it's current state.

Re: Show HN: Using GPT-3 and Whisper to save doctors’ time

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Post by hartleybrody »

urduntupu wrote: post #12

Technically interesting but solving the wrong problem. Doctor's already today spent too little time with their patients to understand diseases holistically enough. Adding technically between these 2 will make treatments in most of the cases worse, not better.

Wow, lots of haters in this thread. Having doctors spend less time with clerical/administrative work needed to record conversations will free up more time to focus on patients. I assume the generated note text can be easily modified by the doc if necessary, but saves them the bulk of having to type things up and remember everything that was discussed.

Re: Show HN: Using GPT-3 and Whisper to save doctors’ time

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Post by l5t »

tomasyany wrote: post #2

It looks pretty neat! Just wondering, what other languages are supported? English seems pretty natural as it is where GPT-3 thrives, but have you been able to support other languages as well?

We currently support English and French and we will be supporting more soon
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