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

Post by kgabis » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 10:15 PM UTC

pharmakom wrote: post #190

gilbetron wrote: post #24

Being a scifi geek and AI geek and neuroscience geek for pretty much the past 40 years, I've read countless predictions and scenarios and stories about society's response as "true" AI begins to emerge. So watching it play out for real is creating this bizarre sense of deja vu combined with fascination and frustration and also some anxiety. This article and the comments in this thread are right up that alley. I mean,…

I can't think of any science fiction where th AI is there but not at all reliable. Maybe evil, but not unreliable. It's a failure mode we weren't anticipating. It also might make it next to useless for some real world applications, despite being incredible technology.

Post by morelisp » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 11:34 PM UTC

hammyhavoc wrote: post #349

morelisp wrote: post #348

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Just wait a few years. Today: "Senior" devs by virtue of knowing the cookbook of, at most, one stack. 2028: "Senior" devs by knowing when GPT-12 output POST when it should have been PUT.

The subject at hand is today, not tomorrow.

Post by textninja » Fri, Apr 07, 2023, 12:09 AM UTC

lamontcg wrote: post #338

textninja wrote: post #153

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> 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…

You might be entirely correct. I noticed a small perf issue with the backwards scanning and had it rewrite it not using rfind("_"). First time I prompted it, though, it didn't actually manage to fix the problem and gave me some mild gaslighting until I told it to explicitly remove the rfind() call. Now I think the result should be comparable to or beat a regexp, but it is getting quite a bit more complex: fn strip_su…

  use regex::Regex;
  
  fn strip_suffix_digits(s: &str) -> &str {
    let re = Regex::new(r"_\d+$").unwrap();
    re.replace(s, "").as_ref()
  }

Post by PeterisP » Fri, Apr 07, 2023, 12:23 AM UTC

Turskarama wrote: post #83

gerdesj wrote: post #76

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It's a bloody calculator and a damn good one (but it can and does go mad). Use it like that and you'll be fine. Have you actually engaged with it in any way? Its free to sign up. By the way, what on earth is an AI booster? Do you really mean "enthusiast"? "My mental model seems to clash with that of the boosters." Please tell us about your mental model, we can't read your mind.

It is very nearly the opposite to a calculator. A calculator gives you exact results for a very small subset of problems (equations). Chat-GPT will give you approximate (and occasionally incorrect) solutions to an extremely wide range of problems. The main problem with AI is that there are only so many problems where an approximate solution is fine, and an incorrect solution is easy to work around. In order for AI to…

Post by PeterisP » Fri, Apr 07, 2023, 12:37 AM UTC

rscho wrote: post #235

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 absolutely not done. You are forgetting that most of medicine is doing things. Doctors are not limited to theory like lawyers are, for instance. And physical robots are still very far from competing with docs.