Fuck AI

I don't know the specifics but my general opinion is that people should use neural networks to crunch data around probability of side-effects of medication or to diagnose tumors, classify sleep cycles and so on.

Asking an AI to diagnose a patient with an LLM is very risky. The LLM will predict the most probably cause but will it pick up on nuances in patients appearance to rule out a less common but more serious disease?

I'm very skeptical about integrating LLMs into the medical field but AlphaFold has moved medicine forward in massive way for example. I want cancer diagnosis and body scans to be filled to the brim with AI but keep it away from my doctor.

I went to visit my GP about a year ago and he said something like "We're trialling this AI thing that's going to listen to our conversation if that's ok".

I like the guy and understand that most people don't really understand tech so I said something like "I'd prefer we disabled it if that's ok". He reacted as though I'd asked to finger his butt hole.

I spared him the following rant but... I just don't understand why anyone would actually want that. I want a doctor that listens to me when I talk to him. If he actually remembered me and kind of got to know me over the years that would be a bonus but it's not really necessary.

I just want to talk to a human and have that human listen to me.

I do not want an LLM to listen in and prompt the GP to refer me to their in-house dietician because I mentioned I'm feeling a bit flat.

This is exactly how I see adults whenever they talk with excitement about replacing brain-powered work with AI prompting. Sometimes they begin a sentence and I see a spark in their fucking eyes knowing exactly that the sentence is going to segue into "(...) and then smirks I opened ChatGPT and (...)".

ai has been used in health care for like 15 years. it's not the same ai as the current bubble is about.