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I’m an ER doctor. Here’s how I’m already using ChatGPT to help treat patients
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#22I can't wait to go to the doctor, they ask me my favorite TV show/movie/video game, and then I get my diagnosis explained to me within the context of that show/movie/game. I could ask GPT to "doctor up" the explanation, and ChatGPT gives me a little more technical/medical jargon. Or just straight cascades of analogy.
This is sarcasm, by the way.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Then you haven’t had much experience with doctors… you go in and you’re most likely getting either a cast, a broad spectrum antibiotic, or an antidepressant. The only things that get specific diagnoses reliably is when somebody finds a tumor. In the last year I had to get a full antiparasite treatment course because a doctor misdiagnosed my partners psoriasis… that was fun.
True, 90% of doctor diagnosis are garbage and maybe even worse than ChatGPT. The 10% is for when you have a visible problem that can be cured with a surgery, they are pretty good at that. A doctor with GPT-4 could be way better than one without.
They already have diagnosis flowcharts where it’s a game it follow the symptom. It would have to be considerably better than the tools they already have to be appropriate.
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#25Kind of fascinating that the benefit here is not so much artificial intelligence as artificial empathy.
I suppose really that's one of the big benefits of LLMs for everything. They're a friend who always has the time and willingness to try and help.
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#26I’d say doc should be expecting a visit from the FDA shortly about his unlicensed medical device.
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#27Will there be a Dr House (is there a more current TV doctor) video version which the family can interact with which would make them feel like they are getting the best care in the world from a famous doctor? But also, if ChatGPT has a 50% chance of giving the wrong diagnosis, can you trust it more than 50% to give the correct reasoning to the family as to the activity of the medical staff?
"Trust but verify". If you can't verify, then don't trust.
I've used ChatGPT for short scripts. I can read and test-run scripts to verify their correctness. On the other hand, asking it to do more complex programming is error-prone.
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#28Kind of fascinating that the benefit here is not so much artificial intelligence as artificial empathy.
All cynicism aside, there's vastly more in the collective writings of humans on empathy than medicine.
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#29Will there be a Dr House (is there a more current TV doctor) video version which the family can interact with which would make them feel like they are getting the best care in the world from a famous doctor? But also, if ChatGPT has a 50% chance of giving the wrong diagnosis, can you trust it more than 50% to give the correct reasoning to the family as to the activity of the medical staff?
"Trust but verify". If you can't verify, then don't trust. I've used ChatGPT for short scripts. I can read and test-run scripts to verify their correctness. On the other hand, asking it to do more complex programming is error-prone.
If you have to verify then there is no trust. That's not how trust works. I never liked the phrase.
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#30Kind of fascinating that the benefit here is not so much artificial intelligence as artificial empathy.
ML models in general are not great when tasked with rigid stuff. Stable diffusion can make a cool picture, but getting it to make exactly the picture you had in mind is mostly impossible.
This is actually a great use case in the sense that the requirements are flexible, it just has to be something empathetic and directionally related. That bar is so much lower than a trustworthy diagnosis or even a document lookup, either of which can be right or wrong. When what you need is "an example of x", this technology is great.