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There's 0 (zero) chance I'd use a robot doctor over a (qualified, capable) human doctor. None.

ipaddr 3y ago
Funny enough I would use a robot doctor over a qualified doctor. It's part of the solution..
bityard 3y ago
Finding a capable doctor is not easy in the first place. There are a surprising number of primary care physicians and even specialists that are really just terrible at their job, at least that has been my experience.
unsupp0rted 3y ago
There’s a 100% chance I’d use a robot doctor (qualified, capable) over a human doctor (qualified, capable). Robots don’t get tired or have fights with their spouses. Robots don’t follow red herrings based on the most recent conversation they saw in a chat group.
- dsfyu404ed 3y ago
  AI doctors will always exploit logical flaws to boost their narrowly defined KPIs. This sounds bad but in reality it's a consistency upgrade over meat powered doctors who are trying to balance many, many more variables. It's like the difference between a capricious bureaucracy that might be chasing revenue one day, stats the next, political clout the third and enforcing morals the fourth to a street gang that DGAF seven days a week as long as you pay them.
- cyrialize 3y ago
  My fear of robot doctors are ones fully trained and controlled by the company creating them or insurance companies. With a human doctor there may be variability in how they treat you and what they tell you - you could appeal to a person's empathy. But what if robot doctors are trained by insurance companies to withhold information or procedures that should be done if the patient doesn't have insurance or can't afford it? Human doctors do this too - I'm not denying that, but at least there's some variability there. With a robot doctor you could have a 100% success rate in withholding information. I could be entirely wrong, I don't know any laws surrounding withholding info, but there could be some legal grayness there. An insurance company would never admit that their robot doctor was trained to withhold info. They could just say that their robot doctor got it wrong. [EDIT] This is definitely a people controlling an AI problem versus an AI problem, but I still think it's worth calling out. Maybe it's the pessimistic inside of me, but I just don't see a future where specialized AI X will be trained in good faith by companies.
astura 3y ago
OTOH, I am 100% sure a robot doctor wouldn't have prescribed me a medicine that interferes with the metabolism of my birth control pills and is pregnancy Category D (known to cause birth defects when taken in pregnancy). A human doctor did though.
PeterisP 3y ago
What if you had to pay a huge amount of money to use a human doctor, and much less for a robot doctor?

Funny enough I would use a robot doctor over a qualified doctor. It's part of the solution..

Finding a capable doctor is not easy in the first place. There are a surprising number of primary care physicians and even specialists that are really just terrible at their job, at least that has been my experience.

unsupp0rted 3y ago

There’s a 100% chance I’d use a robot doctor (qualified, capable) over a human doctor (qualified, capable). Robots don’t get tired or have fights with their spouses. Robots don’t follow red herrings based on the most recent conversation they saw in a chat group.

dsfyu404ed 3y ago
AI doctors will always exploit logical flaws to boost their narrowly defined KPIs. This sounds bad but in reality it's a consistency upgrade over meat powered doctors who are trying to balance many, many more variables. It's like the difference between a capricious bureaucracy that might be chasing revenue one day, stats the next, political clout the third and enforcing morals the fourth to a street gang that DGAF seven days a week as long as you pay them.
cyrialize 3y ago
My fear of robot doctors are ones fully trained and controlled by the company creating them or insurance companies. With a human doctor there may be variability in how they treat you and what they tell you - you could appeal to a person's empathy. But what if robot doctors are trained by insurance companies to withhold information or procedures that should be done if the patient doesn't have insurance or can't afford it? Human doctors do this too - I'm not denying that, but at least there's some variability there. With a robot doctor you could have a 100% success rate in withholding information. I could be entirely wrong, I don't know any laws surrounding withholding info, but there could be some legal grayness there. An insurance company would never admit that their robot doctor was trained to withhold info. They could just say that their robot doctor got it wrong. [EDIT] This is definitely a people controlling an AI problem versus an AI problem, but I still think it's worth calling out. Maybe it's the pessimistic inside of me, but I just don't see a future where specialized AI X will be trained in good faith by companies.

astura 3y ago

OTOH, I am 100% sure a robot doctor wouldn't have prescribed me a medicine that interferes with the metabolism of my birth control pills and is pregnancy Category D (known to cause birth defects when taken in pregnancy). A human doctor did though.

PeterisP 3y ago

What if you had to pay a huge amount of money to use a human doctor, and much less for a robot doctor?