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The author might not fully grasp how many well-paid white-collar jobs, for example in the medical sector, involve tasks that GPT-4 can handle quite easily. Now
by oidar 4y ago
The author might not fully grasp how many well-paid white-collar jobs, for example in the medical sector, involve tasks that GPT-4 can handle quite easily. Now imagine GPT-Medical, a digital doctor sidekick, conducting patient interviews and figuring out diagnoses way faster and with more patience than a human physician. The catch? You still need a physical exam! Combine that with GPT-Medical's consultation, and there you have a solid treatment plan. The physical exam part is likely the saving grace for doctors in the near future. But, mark my words, it's just a matter of time before the medical world starts embracing systems like GPT-4, trained on medical interviews, notes, and case studies. Increased productivity will be demanded by penny pinching administration.
- rvz 4y agoThis is close to absolute euphoric nonsense. Who is going to be held liable when GPT-4 misdiagnoses a patient or hallucinates the wrong advice and risks the patients life? I don't think you would solely trust a black-box AI to fully replace a medical professional or legal professional with the absence of liability and regulations. I'll go a step further, I also guarantee that you would not trust medical or legal advice from GPT-4 or any black-box AI to inject yourself or take a certain amount of pills without going to a human doctor for a second / third opinion. Fundamentally these systems are unexplainable neural networks which cannot reason about their own decisions transparently and regurgitate back whatever it has been trained on. Furthermore, such systems like LLMs are completely untrustworthy for this serious high risk applications other than summarization of text.
- oidar 4y agoIt's going to be baby steps of course. For the specialties that I am most familiar with, note writing will probably be the first thing to be automated. I can feed GPT-4 a garbled mess of a note now and it will make a pretty good note today (a made up visit, with well written examples in the prompt). After Epic gets permission to use real notes, it will be just a stack of dominoes that falls down after that. And it's already happening [1]. Once you can throw crap against a screen and epic makes a decent note out it, history gathering will come next. "GPT-Medical" will go through prior notes and summarize them for the current visit. And after that is fixed, pts will be required to do an interview with "GPT-Medical" before the visit. Of course there will be real physicians working with these systems as the care is advanced. [1] https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/ehrs/epic-to-use-microsofts-open-ai-in-ehrs.html https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/ehrs/epic-to-use-micro...