alt Hacker News> I think LLM's will prove to be useful in any domain where most work happens in front of a computer.
A lot of that work entails work with very little margin for error and hallucinations.
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gerdesj • yesterday at 9:52 PM
A doctor's agent listens in on a patient's appointment. It automatically sorts out prescriptions based on the conversation and performs other mundane tasks.
Perhaps the doctor uses some sort of "safe phrase" to ensure the agent doesn't get distracted by conversational theorizing and discussion.
The agent does decide to improve the prescription and does so because that possibility hadn't been considered in testing.
Warfarin (blood thinner) was prescribed for a haemophiliac and they are now no longer a "burden" on the NHS!
That margin just needs to be lower with LLMs than it is with only humans. In a lot of fields, that's a low bar. For example, medical professionals make a shocking amount of mistakes in aggregate.