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  • In the study, physicians found more inaccuracies and irrelevant information in answers provided by Google’s Med-PaLM and Med-PalM 2 than those of other doctors.

    It’s a bit like every other use of AI IMO: the challenge is to make people understand that it’s a fancy information retrieval system and thus it is flowed and not to be blindly trusted. There was study on the use of professional settings that showed that model such as ChatGPT helped low performers much more than high performers (which had barely any improvement thanks to the model). If this model is used to help less competent doctors (without judgement, they could be beginning their careers) while maintaining a certain degree of doubt, then that could be very good.

    However, the ramification of a wrong diagnosis from the AI is quite scary, especially considering that AI tend to repeat the biais of their training dataset, and even curated data is not exempt from biais















  • Interesting article! I wholeheartedly agree with every other topic but I partly disagree on the AI front. AI has a topic is much wider than crypto and nfts, and better defined than the meta verse. It has concrete uses from document extraction, to protein prediction, and data analysis. However, where I agree with the author is that, on platform like LinkedIn, you find so many quacks who are suddenly experts, telling how AI is the game changer that you didn’t know for something completely unrelated. There is a va lot of pseudo science and false (but seemingly logic) conclusions thrown around. And that’s where the gift is: not in the technology, but in the marketing by scammers.

    E.g. they keep on pushing that, as an expert, AI will replace you unless you adapt and that only those who use ai will survive. However, early research shows the opposite and that using AI actually help low performers and has little impact for experts. Here is an interesting podcast on it