alt Hacker News>If you can get high quality medical advice for effectively nothing
This is an area where a confident, but wrong information is extremely costly. It’s like saying an LLM can give you high quality directions on how to tap into a high voltage transformer. Sure, but when it’s wrong, it’s very very wrong with disastrous consequences. That’s why professions like doctors and Engineers are more regulated than others.
It is definitely too early to expect AI medical advice to be usable (except in very limited instances) but the question is how long and how far will that change? After all, human doctors don’t do so well with new or under documented or rare conditions (consider the history of alpha-gal allergy or lyme disease sufferers even now).