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Devil's advocate: most health problems in developing nations are the basic stuff we solved 100 years ago in the west. An AI that can detect when to give someone
by CrampusDestrus 3y ago
Devil's advocate: most health problems in developing nations are the basic stuff we solved 100 years ago in the west. An AI that can detect when to give someone a dewormer or some vitamines or something else without occupying a doctor could be very helpful
- barbariangrunge 3y agoNot if the ai is hallucinating. Imagine if your doctor was extremely knowledgeable, but extremely high on acid every day and prone to confidently lying to you
- CrampusDestrus 3y agoDo you know how it works? If not then what's the point of this reply?
- PartiallyTyped 3y agoWhat are the odds that 5 doctors will do that? Furthermore, what are the odds that an ensemble of 100 models whose output is ranked / voted / etc will be wrong? What if we used LLMs to guide the search and ask questions / order and rank exams and analyses? This brings us to the bitter lesson, we can scale LLMs and compute far far far better than we can scale humans. As long as we can use compute to scale search and learning from data, we will keep making progress. Chess was unsolvable, Go was unsolvable, Starcraft was unsolvable. We will get there.
- barbariangrunge 3y agoWe’re not discussing a long term thing. We’re discussing a business today using todays tech
- nradov 3y agoDiagnosis is usually the easiest part of treating such conditions. The problems are more in lack of medical supplies, facilities, and personnel to administer treatment.