I’m a doctor: Here’s what I found when I asked ChatGPT to diagnose my patients

Post by VeninVidiaVicii » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 3:28 PM UTC

surgeryres wrote: post #230

MrPatan wrote: post #227

One complaint he has is "It doesn't know to ask the right questions". Well, the prompt was to give diagnoses, not questions. Ask GPT for the follow up questions first, then the diagnoses. This is fascinating in that, because now the machine speaks human, we subconsciously ascribe human agency to it. This guy was instictively treating it like a colleague, who would naturally ask follow up questions unprompted. But you…

Doctors are done? Can the chat bot take out a colon or gall bladder or fix an aneurysm? Hilarity.

Post by aflag » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 3:58 PM UTC

ekidd wrote: post #327

aflag wrote: post #216

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Yes, I see what you mean. But just like you're being less productive when you try to instruct someone else on how to do things, if you follow that path with ChatGPT you'll likely be less productive too. I think ChatGPT adds more value when you ask things you don't quite know or figured out yet. Sometimes it hallucinates, which you can usually figure out quickly, but sometimes it does give good insights which would ta…

The only entity I'm referring to as "it" in the above post is ChatGPT. That seems like the most appropriate pronoun to me? No existing AI system seems to have achieved personhood in a sense that would incline me to refer to it as "they." And when asked, GPT 4 informs me that "as an AI model I have no preferences" (of course), but it suggests that "it" would be appropriate. Do you have an argument why using "it" to re…

Post by eternityforest » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 4:38 PM UTC

Turskarama wrote: post #194

pharmakom wrote: post #191

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Ture but does it matter if the chicken is cooked for 10 minutes, 10 minutes 5 seconds, 10 minutes 10 seconds,... programming requires far more precision.

It does matter if you put some peanut in when the customer is allergic to peanuts.

Post by lamontcg » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 5:33 PM UTC

textninja wrote: post #153

lamontcg wrote: post #118

I'm finding more or less the same behavior with ChatGPT when it comes to programming problems. If I feed it some leetcoding-like problem it usually gets a pretty good answer. I used it to write some rust code to strip-underline-followed-by-trailing-digits off a string. The first guess it made though was to strip a substring, and it missed the fact that the slice it was using could panic. The third try at least passed…

> my instinct is to reach for regexp captures, the solution it came up with is probably a lot faster and easier to read and avoids "now you have two problems”. I don’t write Rust but I think it’s best to trust your instinct here. “Now you have two problems” is a humorous quip and not practical coding advice. Using a regular expression to strip trailing digits from a string will surely result in code that is shorter a…

    fn strip_suffix(s: &str) -> String {
        let mut idx = s.len();
        for (i, c) in s.char_indices().rev() {
            if c == '_' {
                idx = i;
                break;
            } else if !c.is_ascii_digit() {
                return s.to_string();
            }
        }
        if idx == s.len() {
            return s.to_string();
        }
        if s[idx+1..].chars().all(|c| c.is_ascii_digit()) {
            return s[..idx].to_string();
        }
        s.to_string()
    }

Post by namaria » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 5:49 PM UTC

lerchmo wrote: post #328

namaria wrote: post #193

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People pushing the curve get to the middle of the sigmoid and want to believe it's gonna be all vertical now. People observing from the outside heavily discount the hype because they know limits will be reached soon. It happens every time.

Not sure why the outside view is so wise? Predicting the future in complex systems is hard, regardless of your prediction.