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drw85today at 5:03 PM4 repliesview on HN

Nightmare because the AI is just generating a random text that fits the question.


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Legend2440today at 5:14 PM

This is not a fair assessment of what AI is doing.

Studies have found that newer reasoning AIs are about as good at diagnosing illness from a written description of symptoms as doctors are.

Granted, it cannot actually examine a patient, so we're not replacing doctors anytime soon. But your view is obsolete.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adz4433

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betabytoday at 5:08 PM

I feel the same when visiting a doctor in Canada. In that 2 minutes I have with they in one appointment per year I hear a standard text.

d1sxeyestoday at 6:10 PM

Not quite. An LLM generates text that would likely follow. The sky is… “blue”. A patient in pain with a bone protruding from their shin has a… “broken leg”.

The more training data, the more questions it can answer with a reasonable degree of probability of accuracy.

Throwing away a potentially useful analysis just because it’s probabilistic seems a bit like throwing the baby out with the bath water.

poszlemtoday at 5:10 PM

This is a very peculiar use of the word "random".