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>The last thing I want is to read through pages of AI blogspam at the doctors office. Where’s the AI that takes its pages of fluff and boils it down to the poin
by jdietrich 3y ago
>The last thing I want is to read through pages of AI blogspam at the doctors office. Where’s the AI that takes its pages of fluff and boils it down to the point?
Relative to the average patient, you are an extreme outlier. You are almost certainly well above the population average in terms of your level of education and cognitive ability. The average patient is well below that population average, because healthcare is very disproportionately needed by people who are older, less educated, have English as a second language, are suffering from cognitive impairments etc etc.
The number of people who complain that their doctor spent too long talking to them and gave too thorough an explanation rounds to zero, which makes an infinitely patient and free-at-the-margin AI doctor an obvious improvement. A well-trained LLM will make the same sort of assumption about you that a human doctor does - this guy presents his history concisely and in clinical vocabulary, so I can probably skip the pleasantries. The LLM should (if trained towards the right outcomes) not make the sort of prejudiced judgements that caused your friend's unfortunate experience. If it does, we'll see it in the data.