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exactly how hard did beer person have to try to miss the point when they read a thread about how an AI confidently provided a wrong diagnosis and warning about how we shouldn't always trust AI and proceeded to write a reply accusing Misha Saul of being a tech bro who believed an AI over a human doctor
Unpopular opinion incoming:
I don't think we should ignore AI diagnosis just because they are wrong sometimes. The whole point of AI diagnosis is to catch things physicians don't. No AI diagnosis comes without a physician double checking anyway.
For that reason, I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing that an AI got it wrong. Suspicion was still there and physicians double checked. To me, that means this tool is working as intended.
If the patient was insistent enough that something was wrong, they would have had them double check or would have gotten a second opinion anyway.
Flaming the AI for not being correct is missing the point of using it in the first place.
I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing that an AI got it wrong.
I think the bigger issue is why the AI model got it wrong. It got the diagnosis wrong because it is a language model and is fundamentally not fit for use as a diagnostic tool. Not even a screening/aid tool for physicians.
There are AI tools designed for medical diagnoses, and those are indeed a major value-add for patients and physicians.
Fair enough
I'm not following this story..
a friend sent me MRI brain scan results and I put it through Claude
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I annoyed the radiologists until they re-checked.
How was he in a position to annoy his friend's radiologists?
I think it's being framed wrongly for the narrative by the guy posting the screenshot.
A friend sent me MRI brain scan results
Without more context I have to assume guy was still convinced of his brain tumor, knew a friend who knew and talked about Claude, had said friend run results through Claude and told guy who's brain was scanned that Claude gave a positive result, and friend went to multiple doctors for a second, third, fourth opinion.
In America we have to advocate hard when there is an ongoing, still unsolved issue, and that includes using all tools at your disposal.
maybe his friend is also a radiologist and sent op a picture of his own head
Money. Guy is loaded, he can annoy anyone he wants.
Seems made up tbh
And then everyone clapped
His friend? Albert Einstein.
I feel like the book I, Robot provides some fascinating insight into this... specifically Liar